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To: The_Victor
2 posted on
06/13/2005 12:42:49 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
To: The_Victor
I would've said "Mercury-like." Besides, this thing is hugh (I'm series).
3 posted on
06/13/2005 12:43:06 PM PDT by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: The_Victor
They estimated the surface temperature on the new planet at between 400 degrees and 750 degrees Fahrenheit. That's earth like?
5 posted on
06/13/2005 12:44:41 PM PDT by
beltfed308
(Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunion.)
To: The_Victor
They've already found sentinent life:
6 posted on
06/13/2005 12:44:47 PM PDT by
RockinRight
(Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
To: The_Victor
Just whipping around it's sun isn't it.
7 posted on
06/13/2005 12:47:51 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: The_Victor
It is orbiting a star called Gliese 876, 15 light years from Earth, with an orbit time of just 1.94 Earth days.Wow!! This planet's really moving.
Imagine the mortgage rates on this real estate.
8 posted on
06/13/2005 12:48:39 PM PDT by
shekkian
To: The_Victor
sounds like a good place for Dean's voter-outreach program
9 posted on
06/13/2005 12:48:49 PM PDT by
NewMediaFan
(Fake but accurate)
To: The_Victor
If we only had a Stargate!
10 posted on
06/13/2005 12:50:31 PM PDT by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: The_Victor
"A planet that may be Earth-like but too hot for life as we know it has been discovered orbiting a nearby star. The discovery of the planet, with an estimated radius about twice that of Earth, was announced today at the National Science Foundation."
" . . . too hot for life as we know it . . . with an estimated radius about twice that of earth . . . "
Doesn't sound very "Earth-like" to me.
To: The_Victor
A planet that may be Earth-like but too hot for life as we know it
I claim this planet for Texas. We will hang out there during the summer.
To: The_Victor
I just can't believe that orbital period. It would have to be so close to the star that friction would quckly bring it down.
1.94 YEARS, maybe?
17 posted on
06/13/2005 12:58:16 PM PDT by
Da Bilge Troll
(Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
To: The_Victor
with an orbit time of just 1.94 Earth days. That sucker is movin'!
20 posted on
06/13/2005 1:04:53 PM PDT by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: The_Victor
Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Mars) will be green with envy (greener).
To: The_Victor
Yeah, but the question is who will the enviro-whacko's blame this case of Global Warming on?
25 posted on
06/13/2005 1:19:43 PM PDT by
Tallguy
To: The_Victor
The planet is inhabited by nerdlings.
26 posted on
06/13/2005 1:19:51 PM PDT by
GulliverSwift
(Just say no to McCain and Giulliani)
To: All
I'm curious if the gravity of a planet is affected by it's density. I know our gas giants aren't very dense yet they have extremely strong gravitational fields. Or is mass more of a factor than density?
27 posted on
06/13/2005 1:20:14 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: The_Victor
It's a terrestrial planet, but it sure ain't earthlike.
32 posted on
06/13/2005 1:26:07 PM PDT by
Brett66
(Howard Dean - the gift that keeps on giving)
To: The_Victor
A planet that may be Earth-like but too hot for life as we know it has been discovered orbiting a nearby star. Further investigations demonstrate that the planet is a remarkable parallel to earth. It also developed a human-like life form and developed politics similar to the United States. Unfortunately, on that planet, socialists gained the upper hand and drove all business into the ground. The people of the planet had to continue burning trees and cow dung, which lead to the state we find the planet in today.
Shalom.
42 posted on
06/13/2005 1:40:55 PM PDT by
ArGee
(Why do we let the abnormal tell us what's normal?)
To: The_Victor
Gliese 876 is a small, red star with about one-third the mass of the sun. The researchers said this is the smallest star around which planets have been discovered. The usual problem with discovering 'small' extrasolar planets, is the wobble the they produce on their suns is too small to detect - but with the relatively small mass of Gliese 876, a smaller world would produce a greater wobble than we'll say that of a super giant, or even a star like our sun - I assume that's why they discovered a small world in this case.
52 posted on
06/13/2005 1:59:14 PM PDT by
Irish_Thatcherite
(Orwellian Relativism: All philosophies are equal, but some philosophies are more equal than others.)
To: The_Victor
they probably mean Earth-like because it ISN'T a gas giant....
57 posted on
06/13/2005 2:44:23 PM PDT by
MikefromOhio
(10,000 posts by 29 June!!! 9,914 or so replies and counting....Getting Closer!!!!)
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