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Earth-like planet Corot-7b found outside solar system
Times Online ^
| September 17, 2009
| Mark Henderson
Posted on 09/22/2009 2:11:12 PM PDT by antiobamacare
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To: antiobamacare
Somebody needs to explain what “earthlike” means to the writers.
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:13:20 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: antiobamacare
shortens the odds on extraterrestrial life being discovered What...just because we found this one planet?
There must be billions of others just like it.
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:14:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
To: antiobamacare
Home of short, stinky, bald Liberlings.
...now we know.
To: BenLurkin
It shortens odds because it is proof of concept that rocky worlds are reasonably common.
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:18:10 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: antiobamacare
Wonder if they have any "New Coke"?
I actually liked the stuff.
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:18:31 PM PDT
by
jaz.357
("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." W.Churchill)
To: cripplecreek
Since they cannot determine whether this thing has an atmosphere, my guess is that it simply means a terrestrial planet and not a gas giant.
To: antiobamacare
radar sure comes in handy
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:19:40 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Hey Obama. Where is Osama Bin Laden?)
To: BenLurkin
I wouldn’t expect to find life on this one anyway. She’s a might close to the star for comfort.
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:19:46 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: TexasCajun
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:22:29 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: antiobamacare
The majority of what they find are gas giants, it’s very good that they found a rocky planet. Lots of very bizarre worlds out there, this one is really close to it’s sun, and uninhabitable. Humanity might need a new home someday, if we could ever figure out how to get to it. My only hope for space travel is that there are some things about the universe that have not even occurred to us.
To: antiobamacare
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:27:02 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
To: antiobamacare
Does it have a Stargate? Well, does it?
To: antiobamacare
Paging Tom Cruise...
Your alien mothership is calling.
To: cripplecreek
Somebody needs to explain what earthlike means to the writers.
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posted on
09/22/2009 2:52:05 PM PDT
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: antiobamacare
To: antiobamacare
Here's the problem with extra-terrestrial planet search, with the present state of the art: you're only going to find planets that orbit very close to the host star, and thus are unsuitable for life. That's because present techniques use either occultation (planet blocking light from star) or tidal effects (planet pulls tides on the star as it revolves in its orbit, like moon does to us) to detect planets.
Neither of these techniques is going to find an earthlike planet, which would be a rocky planet of about 0.8 - 3.0 earth masses that is about 100 +/-20 million miles from a G-type yellow or yellow-orange star about the size of our sun. It's just too far from its sun for our present-day techniques to detect its occultation, and any tidal effects would be miniscule.
There may be earthlike planets somewhere, but it's possible we may never know about them until we build very large telescopes on the dark side of the moon. And even then, we may not detect them.
Also, if there are earthlike planets, I tend to agree to with Brownlee and Ward, that such planets are rare and most likely have no life, and if they do, it's just bacterial or plankton-like life.
By the way, I'm not a professional, just an interested amateur scientist.
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posted on
09/22/2009 3:29:39 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(Proud to be an American, where I least I know I'm free!)
To: antiobamacare
...which circles a star 500 light years away in the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn...Oh No! Planet Unicorn! My least favorite skits on Red Eye!
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posted on
09/22/2009 3:31:55 PM PDT
by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
To: Freedom_Fighter_2001
“Does it have a Stargate? Well, does it?”
Ask the Air Force. ;)
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posted on
09/22/2009 3:36:36 PM PDT
by
Levante
To: The Comedian
so much media hype of finding earth like planets. Almost every few months we hear media reports of it
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posted on
09/22/2009 3:41:07 PM PDT
by
4rcane
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