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Habitable Planet Possible Around Nearby Star System
space.com ^
| 08/01/06
| Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 08/01/2006 7:24:01 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Someday astronomers will likely create a long list of Sun-like stars with Earth-like planets around them. But technology has yet to reveal such worlds, instead allowing the detection only of much larger planets.
Most of the roughly 200 known extrasolar planets are larger than Jupiter. Many complete their orbital years in just a few days. This proximity to their stars creates noticeable wobbles in the stars that make the planets detectable.
But astronomers figure the giants probably formed farther out, in a disk of material swirling around a newborn star, and migrated inward. In doing so they would have destroyed any fledgling habitable worlds.
In recent years, with improving technology, researchers have found a handful of systems that could harbor life-bearing planets, in theory at least. A nearby star called 55 Cancri is one of the leading candidates.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 55cancri; 55cancriexoplanet; earth2; geoffmarcy; xplanets
55 Cancri ho!!!! We should go.. Not the liberals, not the muslims terrorist.. We should go......
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; ...
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posted on
08/01/2006 7:25:35 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
Thanks for the ping KevinDavis.
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posted on
08/01/2006 7:56:03 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: KevinDavis
Many complete their orbital years in just a few days. Would it have been simplier and accurate to say, many complete their orbits in just a few days?
Just asking, I'm no rocket surgeon, or brain scientest either for that matter.
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posted on
08/01/2006 8:25:52 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: annie laurie; garbageseeker; Knitting A Conundrum
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posted on
08/01/2006 9:27:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Thursday, July 27, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: KevinDavis
Sensors show a class M planet around this sun Captain.
To: KevinDavis
Not the liberals, not the muslims terrorist.. We should go...... Eventually we'll have to - to escape those rabid elements of society before they pull down the whole edifice of civilization and start an especially long and cruel Dark Age. Humanity has historically made the greatest progress when the best and brightest have left the masses behind and struck out for new frontiers.
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posted on
08/02/2006 5:55:04 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: nuke rocketeer
Spock: "Sensors show a class M planet around this sun Captain."
Yoda: " Find it you will not, unless you are strong in the FORCE!"
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posted on
08/02/2006 9:11:10 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
To: KevinDavis
It's only time now before we discover life is not confined to this little dirt ball we call Earth. :-)
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posted on
08/02/2006 9:35:31 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer; All
Shhh.. Don't tell it to the people who think that we are the only ones in this vast universe..
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posted on
08/02/2006 10:16:00 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
Next source of illegal democrat votes.
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posted on
08/02/2006 10:31:02 AM PDT
by
PetroniDE
(We Don't Live in Texas Anymore --- State Name is Now TAXES !!)
To: KevinDavis
Shhh.. Don't tell it to the people who think that we are the only ones in this vast universe.. I think it is simply arrogant to think that we are GOD's only creation in this infinite universe of his.
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posted on
08/02/2006 11:51:02 AM PDT
by
quesera
(Evil does indeed triumph when good men do nothing.)
To: quesera
I think it is simply arrogant Racist, too. Really racist in the actual meaning of the word.
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posted on
08/02/2006 11:53:17 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: RightWhale
Racist, too. Really racist in the actual meaning of the word. I know where you're coming from but I wouldn't exactly call it racist, it is just too harsh of a word but I get your point and I agree with it.
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posted on
08/02/2006 12:06:24 PM PDT
by
quesera
(Evil does indeed triumph when good men do nothing.)
To: RadioAstronomer
It's only time now before we discover life is not confined to this little dirt ball we call Earth. :-)
Yeah, but OUR life is still confined as such, until we make it a priority to not keep all our eggs in one basket...
To: quesera; All
I see it this way.. God created Earth and the Stars... What makes you think that God did not create other races.. Just because it is not mentioned in the bible, doesn't mean it is not true.. Heck, the Bible does not metion Mars or Jupiter....
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posted on
08/02/2006 5:51:25 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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