Universe Puzzle No. 8
As with last week’s Universe Puzzle, something that cannot be answered by five minutes spent googling, a puzzle that requires you to cudgel your brains a bit, and do some lateral thinking. This is a puzzle on a “Universal” topic – astronomy and astronomers; space, satellites, missions, and astronauts; planets, moons, telescopes, and so on.
This puzzle is actually from Universe Today reader, Vino; thanks Vino!
What comes next in the sequence?
0.789, 0.854, 0.941
UPDATE: Answer has been posted below.
1.091
These are the periods, in days, of the transiting extrasolar planets so far discovered, in ascending order (source): WASP-19b, CoRoT-7b, WASP-18b, and WASP-12b.
Check back next week for another Universe Puzzle!
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