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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by Aardwolf on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:19PM (#13709250)
And the name of the star is shared with Trappist beer!
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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by stargazer-3 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:13PM (#13709724)
A colleague of mine has an insider info that the telescope was named after beer on purpose.
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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by fstephany on Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:24AM (#13712268)
Yes, the project was born in Liège University in Belgium.

The name they chose for their programs are quite funny with belgian references: SPECULOOS[0] and TRAPPIST[1].

There are 11 trappist beers in the world (of which 6 are brewed in Belgium). Speculoos is a Dutch/Belgian cookie.

[0]: http://www.speculoos.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_3272698/en/speculoos-po... [1]: http://www.trappist.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_3300885/en/trappist-port...

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