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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does bags mean captures/finds here?

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Robotic planet-hunter bags its first exoplanets

The world's first robotic planet-hunting telescope has bagged its first planets. The Automated Planet Finder (APF) – a 2.4-metre telescope located at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California – started its self-directed operation in January, and has just confirmed the existence of two new systems of planets.
"It's just proof that it works. The planets are starting to come out," says http://www.ucolick.org/~vogt/ at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who designed the spectrometer at the heart of the system.
  

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NL888 Robotic planet-hunter bags its first exoplanets NL888 Does bags mean captures/finds here? Yes. The expression is typically used in reference to hunting wild game.

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  • NL888 Robotic planet-hunter bags its first exoplanets NL888 Does bags mean captures/finds here?
  • Yes.
  • The expression is typically used in reference to hunting wild game.
  • I'd say it's used figuratively in this case.
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NL888Robotic planet-hunter bags its first exoplanets
NL888Does bags mean captures/finds here?
Yes.

The expression is typically used in reference to hunting wild game.
I'd say it's used figuratively in this case.
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