[cripplecreek]

I just wish these writers wouldn’t use the term “New Earth” or “Earthlike”. Science is taking a beating because of the climate scam and people read a title like that then find that the article mentions anything but earthlike planets and the scientists get the blame.

According to planetquest the number of planets found stands at 403 and the number of eartlike planets is listed at 0.

[ilovesarah2012]

Amazing that we still seem to be unique. God made us special.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The reason why Earth planets have not been discovered is because they are tiny. The parent star blots them out. Traditional methods of exoplanet detection all rely on indirect means of inferring the existence of orbiting bodies. These methods include:
1.astrometry - watching a star move slightly due to the gravitational influence of a nearby planet
2.Observing doppler shifts of the stars spectrum due to the star's movement
3.Observing the amount of light from a star change as an extrasolar planet transits the star, preventing a portion of the light from reaching the observer.
4.Pulsar timing
5.Gravitational microlensing
6.Observing radiation from Circumstellar disks in the infrared.
The Kepler Mission, is a NASA mission which is able to detect extrasolar planetsThe NASA Kepler Mission uses the transit method to scan a hundred thousand stars in the constellation Cygnus for planets. Kepler will be sensitive enough to detect planets even smaller than Earth. By scanning a hundred thousand stars simultaneously, it will not only be able to detect Earth-sized planets, it will be able to collect statistics on the numbers of such planets around sunlike stars

[Brett66]

It’s probably the reporters assigning these names to these exoplanets, but scientists and reporters should be more careful with the terms they use.

If it’s a rocky world at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, that ain’t “Earthlike”