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Astronomers Have Discovered 2 Super-Earths Orbiting a Nearby Star
https://www.sciencealert.com ^
| 16 JUNE 2022
| MICHELLE STARR
Posted on 06/17/2022 8:04:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Interesting. Maybe Webb can get some spectral data indicating atmospheric composition!
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posted on
06/17/2022 9:22:11 AM PDT
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MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Red Badger
The fastest spacecraft we’ve had so far is NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. After it launched from Earth in 2018, it skimmed the Sun’s atmosphere and used the Sun’s gravity to reach 330,000 mph (535,000 kmh). That’s blindingly fast – yet only 0.05% of the speed of light.
It would take 66 millennia to reach 33 light years away.
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posted on
06/17/2022 9:25:46 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
To: Steve_Seattle
Just 33 light-years away? I might check it out sometime. Let me ride with and I'll bring the beer.
To: Alas Babylon!
I’ll wait............................
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posted on
06/17/2022 9:50:14 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
They’ll be no landing and walking around. Super earth means super gravity.
To: Telepathic Intruder
My wife calls me a gas giant.
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posted on
06/17/2022 9:57:46 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Black American flag time. KTF)
To: Red Badger
I’ll wait............................ But then again, probably not so long.
I've always liked those science fiction stories where the earlier, slower ships get frog jumped by the technical achievements back home.
When the first sent load of colonists arrive, they find a bustling Earth built community had arrived 1,000 years before them!
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posted on
06/17/2022 10:24:09 AM PDT
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Alas Babylon!
(Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
To: Red Badger
Oh great! New worlds for liberals to destroy!
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posted on
06/17/2022 10:27:03 AM PDT
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Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: MtnClimber
Being larger than earth, you may want to check it’s gravity. Slightly larger may mean bone crusher.
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posted on
06/17/2022 10:34:20 AM PDT
by
D Rider
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To: Red Badger; KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
06/17/2022 10:36:15 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Noumenon
The important thing is that she doesn’t poop on your bed.
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To: Levy78
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posted on
06/17/2022 10:50:03 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Steve_Seattle
Just 33 light-years away? I might check it out sometime. Do you realize what that's gonna cost you in carbon credits?
To: Alas Babylon!
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posted on
06/17/2022 10:52:56 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
06/17/2022 11:51:33 AM PDT
by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
To: Antihero101607; Leep
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posted on
06/17/2022 11:54:17 AM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Red Badger
"The inner exoplanet, HD 260655 b, is around 1.2 times the size of Earth and twice the mass of Earth, and orbits the star every 2.8 days. The outer world, HD 260655 c, is 1.5 times the size and thrice the mass of Earth, and has a 5.7-day orbit."I've fallen and I can't get up, and I seem to be aging rapidly.
"Sadly, even though the star is cooler and dimmer than the Sun, the proximity of the planets to HD 260655 means the worlds would be way too hot for life as we know it. HD 260655 b has an average temperature of 435 degrees Celsius (816 Fahrenheit), and HD 260655 c is a milder but still scorching 284 degrees Celsius (543 degrees Fahrenheit)."
I can't breathe
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posted on
06/17/2022 11:58:17 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: Red Badger
just 33 light-years away Math is never a journalist's strong suite.
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posted on
06/17/2022 12:06:36 PM PDT
by
Hardastarboard
(Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
To: Steve_Seattle
Just 33 light-years away? I might check it out sometime. I have a long weekend coming up, I'll let you know what I find.
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posted on
06/17/2022 12:08:35 PM PDT
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SamAdams76
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