[SunkenCiv]

[Illustration Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech ]

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Oh, crap. They found our planet."

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Our discovery, our planet.

[samtheman]

This is the second piece I’ve read about this planet and both times from what is written we can assume that astronomers believe they are looking at a rocky planet and not a gaseous one.

But I haven’t read the actual words: This is a rocky planet.

Is it? Is that fact knowable from this distance?

A gaseous planet (a small Jupiter) even in the “habitable zone” probably isn’t going to have life.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L

[ixtl]

Assuming (always a dangerous practive) a rocky planet, with its apparent mass, its gravity would be greater than Earth’s. I haven’t done the math (probably won’t), but I would guess it to be 3 to 4 times that of Earth. So, a 150 lb. human would weigh from 450 to 600 lbs. Hmmmmm. wonder what they would look like?

[hattend]

A SETI project, however, will begin monitoring Kepler 22b for signs of intelligence.

Coincidentally, the SETI program on Kepler 22b have their antennas pointed at Sol doing the same thing. So far, no luck.