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To: kennedy
The most “Earth like” planet ever discovered is almost exactly the same size and mass and orbits an identical star at close to the same orbit.

It is called Venus. Not very habitable though.

WOW! Our "objective" scientists think they have found a rocky planet in orbit around a "G" class star and, voilà!, it suddenly is described as "earth-like" and "habitable".

I guess "Greenland" is no longer the winner of "History's Most Outlandish Real Estate Brochure" award. (actually, at the time Greenland was named (the Medieval Warm Period) it probably did have green meadows for the Viking cattle to graze)

Your reality check wins the prize! Runners-Up are Mars & Mercury.

18 posted on 07/27/2015 6:59:12 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (.)
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To: BwanaNdege

Yep.... You know... I once had a job that I thought was completely irrelevant and unimportant. But nothing like this. Can you imagine going to work everyday to look for planets that are 33,000 travel time years away, and trying to figure out if they are made of rocks or gas?


21 posted on 07/27/2015 7:58:49 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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