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"Earth-like planet discovered 50 light-years away"
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posted08/28/2004 04:28 AM (UTC)by
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From CNN.com

Planet is smallest known outside our solar system

By Robert Roy Britt
Space.com

(SPACE.com) -- In a discovery that has left one expert stunned, European astronomers have found one of the smallest planets known outside our solar system, a world about 14 times the mass of our own around a star much like the sun.

It could be a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere, a sort of "super Earth," the researchers said today.

But this is no typical Earth. It completes its tight orbit in less than 10 days, compared to the 365 required for our year. Its daytime face would be scorched.

The planet's surface conditions aren't known, said Portuguese researcher Nuno Santos, who led the discovery. "However, we can expect it to be quite hot, given the proximity to the star."

Hot as in around 1,160 degrees Fahrenheit (900 Kelvin), Santos said.

Still, the discovery is a significant advance in technology: No planet so small has ever been detected around a normal star. And the finding reveals a solar system more similar to our own than anything found so far.

Terrestrial in nature

The star is like our sun and just 50 light-years away. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). Most of the known extrasolar planets are hundreds or thousands of light-years distant.

The star, mu Arae, is visible under dark skies from the Southern Hemisphere. It harbors two other planets. One is Jupiter-sized and takes 650 days to make its annual trip around the star. The other planet, whose existence was confirmed with the help of the new observations, is farther out.

The three-planet setup, with one being rocky, is unique.

"It's much closer to our solar system than anything we've found so far," said Alan Boss, a planet-formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.

Full article can be found here at CNN site or at Space.com

Pretty damn interesting! wowwowwow


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 •08/26/2004 05:07 PM (UTC) •
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Bad news!sad
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I need a great pic here. Edenian people would be my fav. Inbox me pls.

 •08/26/2004 05:16 PM (UTC) •
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The description doesn't sound very Earthlike.
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 •08/26/2004 05:16 PM (UTC) •
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Siduu101 Wrote:
Bad news!


??? Bad news! It's an interesting discovery. Bad news?


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 •08/26/2004 05:21 PM (UTC) •
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Of course it's bad news!

Siduu101 Wrote:
Of course it's bad news!


Explain.
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 •08/26/2004 05:24 PM (UTC) •
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I can only explain it religiously and the rules are against my religion.
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 •08/26/2004 05:26 PM (UTC) •
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Siduu101 Wrote:
I can only explain it religiously and the rules are against my religion.


*kicks the dog* If you couldn't say in detail, also minding the restriction on religious discussions of that sort, then why say anything?

Geeeeeez!


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Hello

•08/26/2004 05:27 PM (UTC) •
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its siduu guys.. y do u guys even bother asking him..?? confused

GHOST -this is good news.. thanks for the heads up!!
IcedOutLinKueiWarrior Wrote:

Siduu101 Wrote:
Of course it's bad news!

Explain.

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Taking a Leave of Absence...

 •08/26/2004 11:45 PM (UTC) •
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Too bad it's completely uninhabitle (sic?), what with the 1140 F temperature...
BTW, how much is that in Celsius/Centigrade ?
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 •08/27/2004 12:45 AM (UTC) •
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thats kool news. a great discovery and another step in more advanced technology that will probaly lead to our doom. i hope not at least.
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 •08/27/2004 12:55 AM (UTC) •
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Pretty cool news!It's literally "hot".grin
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 •08/27/2004 01:05 AM (UTC) •
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Maybe that's where Saddam is hiding his weapons of mass destruction.

Or maybe Bin Laden is hiding there. We should send troops there.
...Although they better bring a lot of sun block.
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 •08/27/2004 01:17 AM (UTC) •
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^~ shut the fuck up
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 •08/27/2004 01:38 AM (UTC) •
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^~ shut the fuck up
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"Tis true my form is something odd, But blaming me is blaming God. Could I create myself anew, I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul, The mind's the standard of the man."
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 •08/27/2004 01:56 AM (UTC) •
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migle Wrote:
^~ shut the fuck up


*butterfly kicks migle in the face*

I'm not gonna have you start a political war in my thread. Please contribute to the subject or don't contribute at all.

Xie xie!


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BEHOLD THE FURY OF THE 3LD3R G0D5!!!!!

 •08/27/2004 04:47 AM (UTC) •
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I think there is life out there somewhere besides earth. The "super Earth" Described as the smallest planet next to that Star 50 light-years away, Sounds like The Chronicles Of Riddick(the planet where at sunrise everything gets baked to 1000+ degrees) AND GEORGE BUSH DIDNT LIE ABOUT THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTIONS. THEY ARE IN LIBYA RIGHT NOW AS I SPEAK. HE SHIPPED THEM THERE.
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 •08/27/2004 01:59 PM (UTC) •
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Cool, but I don't get how this is an Earth-like planet; based on the description, it sounds like Mercury with an atmosphere (does Mercury even have one, I don't remember...).
Earth-like how? Hell perhaps, but not Earth.


When are they gonna look for Planet Snack?



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 •08/27/2004 05:22 PM (UTC) •
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xcarnagex Wrote:
Maybe that's where Saddam is hiding his weapons of mass destruction.

Or maybe Bin Laden is hiding there. We should send troops there.
...Although they better bring a lot of sun block.


LMAO

Cool find GD.
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 •08/27/2004 06:16 PM (UTC) •
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lol, I was going to mention Chronicles of Riddick too... that'd be fucking awesome. I'd live there.

And to everyone who doesn't finding this at least a little bit interesting and cool, just fuck off. Quit being such cunts, there isn't a single thread on this fucking board that isn't stained with all that kind of goddamn bullshit.

Christ.
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 •08/27/2004 06:22 PM (UTC) •
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It's common sence there're more planets out there!
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 •08/28/2004 01:57 AM (UTC) •
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scientist dont believe theres life because they believe that every creature even outside our solar system needs water to survive. no water means they dont believe theres life like us out there. that theroy in my mind is well bullshit.
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 •08/28/2004 02:10 AM (UTC) •
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very interesting thread!

Im so interested in Astromony, I took a college course on it, and Im only in high-scool.

this is really interesting.

As for life, I mean honestly, out the 4 quadrillion+ star systems out there (not lying about that) theres got to, just got to be life somewhere. It's crazy not to think it. As for water, meh, It really rests on believes. What type of creature? what do they need to live? questions like that should be answered, so water can only come in if you have good enough proof of what you're speaking. There's so many things to talk about with this.

This excites me, although the thin atmosphere and close revolutions make it hotter than hell, and the desolate life and lack of possible transportation make it useless to worry about, this would otherwise be and awesome vacation! ha.

Although Having your birthday every two weeks would get old....heheh...old...get it?

Im done
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 •08/28/2004 03:01 AM (UTC) •
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I wonder how many schools we could have built with the money that was invested in research to find this little planet that we'll never reach...
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