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Alpha Centauri B Has An Earth-Mass Planet
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| 10/16/12
| Keith Cowing
Posted on 10/16/2012 5:50:06 PM PDT by KevinDavis
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system -- the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012.
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To: TChad
Sunrise is related to how fast it spins.
To: Gadsden1st
Being that close to the star means its probably tidally locked.
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10/17/2012 4:39:59 AM PDT
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cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: KevinDavis
Awesome! I knew little Alpha Centauri had it in them.
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10/17/2012 4:41:20 AM PDT
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Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Edward Teach
28% chance of success??? Would have been better off playing for the U.N. Victory path
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10/17/2012 4:44:26 AM PDT
by
Hegewisch Dupa
(Vote for Goode, end up with evil, pat self on back repeatedly)
To: fieldmarshaldj
There are a lot of stories based on a planet near Alpha Centauri.
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posted on
10/17/2012 6:52:59 AM PDT
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tbw2
To: tbw2
One of my earliest introductions to sci fi was a book called "Revolt on Alpha C".
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10/17/2012 7:21:39 AM PDT
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cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
To: colorado tanker
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10/17/2012 1:42:32 PM PDT
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Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
To: NCDave; All
I think so. I’m ready.. Hell I have been ready to move since I was a kid..
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10/17/2012 3:21:04 PM PDT
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KevinDavis
(And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.)
To: Slyfox
15 years to the day after they were supposed to have taken off.
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10/19/2012 5:09:30 AM PDT
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jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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