Kevin Nelson

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Austin Post Office

You removed the Austin Post Office image in this revision here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Austin,_Texas&diff=291119235&oldid=290962947

In a way its a local "landmark" because this is the United States Postal Service's main post office for Austin, Texas. It doesn't look distinctive because the USPS built it rather recently. The USPS's main post office is not located in the central city. Also, there isn't a sign on the post office that says "Austin Post Office" -- but there is a banner that says "APO" - A clue about what it really is. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:46, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Some exoplanets lack water

"The recent discovery that several surveyed exoplanets lacked water showed that there is still much more to be learned about the properties of exoplanets."

Kevin I respectfully believe this sentence from the Extrasolar planet page means that some of the observed exoplanets lack water. So it doesn't mean that water wasn't found yet. I know that water vapor has been found spectroscopically. But according to the predictions of current theories of planet formation some of the planets should have water but they don't so that's why we have much to learn yet. See this link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=water-mysteriously-absent. I'll add the sentence again with the citation

Best regards Quantanew (talk) 05:38, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Number of stars and planets in the Milky Way

Hi, Since you seem to know the subject, could you have a look at the number of stars and planets in the Milky Way. There are various figures, which do not seem to match. See Milky Way#Composition and structure and Extrasolar planet#Number of stars with planets. I have seen the figure of 10¹² planets in the Milky Way, but I don't understand how this is computed. Thanks, Yann (talk) 13:27, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Rogue Planet merger proposal

Might pay to tag the other pages you wish to merge, see Wikipedia:Merging#Proposing a merger. SkyMachine (talk) 21:22, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Lists of extrasolar planets

Number of discovered extrasolar planets has reached 707. You can add planets to these articles since they're way outdated:

List of exoplanetary host stars

List of planetary systems

List of extrasolar planets detected by timing

List of extrasolar planets directly imaged

List of extrasolar planets detected by microlensing

List of transiting extrasolar planets

List of extrasolar planets detected by radial velocity

--BlueEarth (talk | contribs) 22:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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Exoplanet

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