Article: Scientists discover 18 planet-sized objects unattached to mother stars.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Article: Astronomers find 18 planet-sized objects drifting; ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... objects of this size, which have never before been detected, are failed stars or planets without a sun, said Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. "Everybody agrees with our mass determination of these objects ...

Article: Italian Inventor Develops Small Sized Objects ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 5, 2006 ;     521 words ... ... Florence, Italy, has developeda container for small sized objects. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "container for small sized objects such as candies, chocolates, cosmetics, fragrances ...

Article: U.S. Astronomers Find 18 Nomadic Planet-Sized ...
Xinhua News Agency;  October 7, 2000 ;     397 words ...A team of U.S. astronomers has detected 18 planet-sized objects, which are unattached to any star and wander in a star field about 1,200 light years from Earth. In a study appearing in Friday ...

Article: Virtual reality on a nanometer scale. (virtual reality display ...
Science News;  January 13, 1996 ;     592 words ... ... gloves, a scientist becomes immersed in a three-dimensional atomic world, experiencing the nooks and crannies of a virus or the tiniest elements of a computer chip. The researcher can then push and pull such nanometer-sized objects.

Article: Celestial shopping: Galaxy's loaded with Earth-sized ...
Daily Breeze;  February 21, 2006 ;     317 words ...Well, if the Earth ever wears out, blows up or wobbles out of orbit, saving the human species may be possible. Scientists have detected the most Earth-like planet ever discovered (not counting Earth, of course). It's icy. It's rocky. It's 5.5 times as large as this world. And, unfortunately, it's

Article: New-found objects are as big as planets
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... discovered a nursery of 18 young, planet-sized objects unattached to any mother stars, wandering ... author of the Science paper, Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, a Spanish astronomer based at the ... are very low-mass brown dwarfs," Zapatero Osorio conceded. "But if planets must be ...

Article: Discovery of Objects Stirs 'Planet' Debate; Team's Labeling Is ...
The Washington Post;  October 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... how planets form," said Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio of the Instituto de Astrofisica de ... are very low-mass brown dwarfs," Zapatero Osorio said. "But if planets must be a ... t make it a soccer player." The Zapatero Osorio group said it would be surprising ...