Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered

An international team discovered a planet which orbits two stars, like the fictional planet Tatooine featured in the sci-fi film series Star Wars. They made the finding through NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. The planet, called Kepler-16b, is about 200 light years from Earth and is believed to be a frozen world of rock and gas, about the size of Saturn.

It orbits two stars that are also circling each other, one about two-thirds the size of our sun, the other about a fifth the size of our sun. The two stars orbit each other every 41 days at a distance of about 21 million miles. The planet completes a circular orbit around both stars every 229 days at a distance of 65 million miles, according to the findings published in the Science journal.

Award and Prizes 2010

International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2010

• Bengali filmmaker Gautam Ghosh's film “Moner Manush”(The Quest), an Indo-Bangladesh
joint production, bagged the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 41st
International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2010.

• The Silver Peacock Award for the Best Director went to Susanne Bier of Denmark for her film
‘In a Better World.' ‘Just Another Love Story' from India and ‘The Boy' from New Zealand
were the joint winners of the Special Jury Award.

• The Best Actor Award of Rs.10 lakh went to the Turkish actor Guven Kirac for his role in the
film ‘The Crossing' while the Best Actress Award was won by Magdalena Boczarska of Poland
for her role in ‘Little Rose.'