First there was Waterworld the movie, now there's Waterworld the new planet classification. The planet class, which was observed by the Hubble space telescope, is categorized as having a watery mass with a thick, steamy atmosphere encompassing it. Planet GJ1214b was discovered in May 2009 by Zachory Berta and his MEarth Project colleagues.
Planet GJ 1214b data was now been analyzed by a team of astronomers led by Zachory Berta (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA). Planet GJ 1214b is approximately 2.7 times the size of the earth and has been referred to as a super Earth class planet.
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