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September 10, 2011 06:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pu4IeapkauU/Kepler-Discovers-Phantom-Exoplanet
Kepler Discovers 'Phantom' Exoplanet
astroengine writes "The Kepler space telescope has spotted an extra-solar planet with a very odd orbit. Sometimes Kepler-19b slows down by five minutes during its 9-day orbit. Other times it speeds up by five minutes. Johannes Kelper's laws of orbital dynamics never said a celestial body can arbitrarily speed up and slow down; another planetary body must therefore be gravitationally acting on Kepler-19b. Enter Kepler-19c, a world that hasn't been observed, but its gravitational effects have. This is an unprecedented discovery, one that could potentially be used in multi-planetary star systems to discover more 'phantom' worlds that would have otherwise gone unnoticed." 
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