Super-Earth planets discovered beyond solar system, Navtej Kohli Blog gives a broad insight into the matter.

Scientists claim to have discovered a triple system of ’super-Earths’ around a distant star.

Super-Earths have a mass between two and ten times the Earth’s mass that is less massive than that of Uranus and Neptune.

European astronomers discovered the system of super-Earths around a star named HD 40307 that lies 42 light-years away towards the southern Doradus and Pictor constellations. They also discovered 45 further potential planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses and an orbit shorter than 50
days.

The scientists made the super-Earth and candidate planet discoveries using the HARPS instrument at the ESO.

“Clearly these planets are only the tip of the iceberg,” Mr. Mayor commented.

“The analysis of all the stars studied with HARPS shows that about one third of all solar-like stars have either super-Earth or Neptune-like planets with orbital periods shorter than 50 days.”

Researcher Stephane Udry added: “It is most probable that there are many other planets present: not only super-Earth and Neptune-like planets with
longer periods, but also Earth-like planets that we cannot detect yet.

“Add to it the Jupiter-like planets already known, and you may well arrive at the conclusion that planets are ubiquitous.”

Navtej Kohli compiles some amazing facts about human body.

Do you know?

50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!

In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard
off the ground.

In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million
cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.

The structural plan of a whale’s, a dog’s, a bird’s and a man’s ‘arm’ are exactly the same.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.

Most people blink about 25 times a minute.

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.

Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.

The average human body contains enough
Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900
pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap,
Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a
ten-gallon tank.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the micro-organisms on your body.

Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. :

When you eat meat and drink milk in the
same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk’s calcium. It is
best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world’s telephones put together.

We have a a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.

Our bodies are recreating themselves
constantly – we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month.
We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!

Navtej Kohli blog brings another scoop from the IT world.

According to certain reports RIM is planning to launch a phone named Thunder. This device would be an answer to iPhone.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. plans to launch a touch-screen version of the wireless e-mail device in the third quarter as an answer to Apple Inc’s iPhone.

The device, known as the Thunder, is to be sold exclusively through Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone PLC abroad, the Journal reported on its Web site, citing people familiar with the matter.

RIM declined to comment on the report, stating that it does not comment on rumors and speculation. Earlier this week, rumored
details of a touch-screen BlackBerry surfaced on the Internet.

In February, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said the company may bring out a touch-screen device if customers want it.

This week, Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM announced its BlackBerry Bold, a sleek smartphone with a keyboard aimed at its core base of business
users.

Introducing a touch-screen BlackBerry would put RIM in more direct competition with Apple’s popular iPhone.

In the past, Balsillie has dismissed concerns that the iPhone could pose a serious competitive threat.

A touch-screen BlackBerry would also build on RIM’s continuing push into the broader retail market as it seeks to diversify its client base
beyond the executives, lawyers and other professionals who have been its mainstay.