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Alpha Centauri B Has An Earth-Mass Planet
SpaceRef ^
| 10/16/12
| Keith Cowing
Posted on 10/16/2012 5:50:06 PM PDT by KevinDavis
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system -- the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012.
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KEYWORDS: alphacentauri; alphacentauria; alphacentaurib; space; xplanets
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Well I was partially right.. I hope the planet can handle human life.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
10/16/2012 5:51:56 PM PDT
by
dead
(It ain't over until the phone lady sings.)
To: KevinDavis
Well its about time.
I’ll start packin.
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posted on
10/16/2012 5:51:59 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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posted on
10/16/2012 5:53:35 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.)
To: dead
Dibs hell, I'm already selling condos.
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posted on
10/16/2012 5:56:45 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
Just a little to close to the sun (Alpha Centauri) than I would like, but what the heck ... I’ll start packing.
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posted on
10/16/2012 5:57:49 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: KevinDavis
Nice to know. But we can’t go until we now whether there is beef.
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posted on
10/16/2012 5:58:22 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: KevinDavis
To: KevinDavis
That’s the planet they launched the Robinson Family to in “Lost in Space.”
To: cripplecreek
LOL! I’m in! Where do I sign up?
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posted on
10/16/2012 6:13:02 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Conservatism didn't magically show up in Romney's heart in 2012. You can't force what isn't in you.)
To: KevinDavis
OK... Do we need to start a “MOVE TO NEW PLANET!” PING? If so, you do it...lol.
PACKING. How many ladies are coming? Stops packing.
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posted on
10/16/2012 7:14:23 PM PDT
by
NCDave
(AKA, "That idiot over there")
To: cripplecreek
I’m ready to go as well. I don’t know how long it takes to travel 800 light years but I don’t want to be an old man when I get there so I need to start soon.
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posted on
10/16/2012 7:22:03 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(G Orwell was an optimist it seems.)
To: BipolarBob
This is only about 4 and a half light years so it will only take 50,000 yeas or so with current technology.
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posted on
10/16/2012 7:32:14 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
10/16/2012 7:51:52 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
To: KarlInOhio
We broke hyperlight years ago.
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posted on
10/16/2012 7:53:25 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: KevinDavis
Time to build a star ship. :-)
To: KevinDavis
The article cites no surface temperature estimates, but the planet orbits Alpha Centauri B every 3.2 DAYS.
That sunrise must be a bitch.
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posted on
10/16/2012 8:25:29 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: KevinDavis
There's already people there:
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posted on
10/16/2012 9:02:02 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: KevinDavis
This time, Dr. Smith, have a better story than checking on the helium/nitrogen ratio. Major West says a story like that wouldn’t get him out of Sunday chapel. ;-)
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10/16/2012 10:26:00 PM PDT
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grateful
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10/17/2012 3:48:00 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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