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Science News
A.Article 2
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27669572
Astronomers have spotted the "Godzilla" of all Earths, a huge
rocky planet orbiting a star 560 light years away that is changing
scientists' understanding of the origins of the universe.
This new mega-Earth weighs 17 times as much as our planet, and
was found by NASA's Kepler mission.
The discovery, named Kepler-10c, is 29,000 kilometres wide or 2.3
times the size of the Earth.
"We were very surprised when we realized what we had found," said
astronomer Xavier Dumusque of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics.
Until now, astronomers did not think a rocky planet could get so large,
because its growing girth would make it collect more hydrogen gas
and turn it into a gas-giant, like Jupiter.
"This is the Godzilla of Earths," said researcher Dimitar Sasselov,
director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative.
The US space agency's planet-hunting Kepler mission can only spot
planets and classify them based on the number of times they pass in
front of their star. It cannot reveal much about whether they are rocky
or gassy.
What lifted Kepler-10c out of the category of super-Earths and miniNeptunes - planets outside our solar system that are larger than Earth
and smaller than dense, gassy Neptune - was a special telescope in
the Canary Islands which measured its mass.
"Kepler-10c didn't lose its atmosphere over time. It's massive enough
to have held onto one if it ever had it," said Dr Dumusque.
"It must have formed the way we see it now."
Since Kepler-10c is far denser than expected, that puts it in a new
class, which more planets are likely to join once discovered, experts
said.

Kepler-10c, circles its Sun-like star once every 45 days, suggesting it

is likely too hot for life to survive.
It is located in a planetary system that is also home to Kepler-10b, a
lava-world that spins around in a fast 20-hour orbit.
The Kepler-10 system is 11 billion years old, and formed less than
three billion years after the Big Bang, scientists said.
That means that somehow, the universe was able to form massive
rocks even when heavy elements like silicon and iron were scarce.
The early universe was made of only hydrogen and helium.
"Finding Kepler-10c tells us that rocky planets could form much earlier
than we thought. And if you can make rocks, you can make life," said
Professor Sasselov.

B. Paragraph
My reaction was wow there was a big rock of planet orbiting in its own
sun and it is just like our earth but unhabitable because it is to hot for
life to survive and it is to big 17 times bigger than our planet wow and
wider than our planet I cant even imagine how big it is and it is to old
11 billion years old and Professor Sasselov said when there is rock
you can make life Fantastic