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To: NightOfTheLivingDems
They are saying “earth-sized.”

Venus is about as close to "earth-sized" as you are ever going to find. It is in just the right orbit too.

If we are ever able to spot "earth-sized" exoplanets, the real trick is going to be distinguishing the Venus-like planets from the Earth-like planets.

13 posted on 01/12/2010 7:12:11 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Crisis - America Held Hostage)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
the real trick is going to be distinguishing the Venus-like planets from the Earth-like planets

That would be a few years off yet; probably a decade or so before we start getting spectra from earth sized exoplanets. Once that data is available we'll know which it is.

16 posted on 01/12/2010 7:46:16 PM PST by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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