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'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:40 am
by DTS
a "super-Earth" seven times our planet's mass, in the habitable zone where liquid water can exist.
Many more observations will be needed to confirm any other similarities.
But the find joins an ever-larger catalogue of more than 800 known exoplanets, and it seems only a matter of time before astronomers spot an "Earth 2.0" - a rocky planet with an atmosphere circling a Sun-like star in the habitable zone.
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HD 40307g, orbits the star in about 200 Earth-days and has a mass at least seven times that of Earth, joining a growing class of exoplanets called super-Earths.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20249753
Re: 'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:16 pm
by seremtan
Kracus has already been there
Re: 'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:23 pm
by Whiskey 7
Very interesting read there DTS
Re: 'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:30 pm
by Tsakali
cool, but I wonder just how different it would be, even with everything else being equal.... I'm not even sure if a solid body can be stable in that size.
Re: 'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:15 am
by losCHUNK
Wonder if they have bandwidth caps
Re: 'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:30 am
by GONNAFISTYA
I'm pretty sure church groups are already trying to ban sex there.
Re: 'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:46 am
by seremtan
pretty sure there's already a trend among morons there for saying 'lol'
Re: 'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:18 am
by Whiskey 7
a "super-Earth" seven times our planet's mass, in the habitable zone where liquid water can exist.
Just wondering, if bipeds do exist would they be short or would their bone structure compensate for the planet mass (read gravity)?
Here is an
interesting article to read and watch the video
Re: 'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:34 pm
by LawL
GONNAFISTYA wrote:I'm pretty sure church groups are already trying to ban sex there.
seremtan wrote:pretty sure there's already a trend among morons there for saying 'lol'
Not sure though.