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For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net
2 posted on
10/15/2009 5:31:17 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Can't Stop the Signal!)
To: KevinDavis
Just letting you know that “Astronomy” is a far better topic for this thread than “Miscellaneous.”
To: KevinDavis
Before anyone starts squealing about sciences wild claims about having found “earthlike” planets, The planet quest directory lists 374 planets found and 0 “earths”.
Blame the media for the hyperbole.
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
4 posted on
10/15/2009 5:38:48 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: KevinDavis
5 posted on
10/15/2009 5:41:32 PM PDT by
john in springfield
(One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
To: KevinDavis
Someday, we'll have telescopes with sufficient visual resolution to see if anyone left the lights on at the neighbor's planet.
6 posted on
10/15/2009 6:08:07 PM PDT by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: KevinDavis
I think if they find a larger-than-Jupiter exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star, it would be more interesting because it will likely have several very large moons that could be Earthlike.
8 posted on
10/15/2009 6:24:16 PM PDT by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: KevinDavis
European Extremely Large Telescope.
Note this is not something going on in the US any longer. If anything look for the headline from the new WH news broadcasts touting the American Extremely Small Telescope.
10 posted on
10/16/2009 5:41:46 AM PDT by
PIF
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