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Star To Be Investigated For Alien Life
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| 10-8-2003
Posted on 10/08/2003 3:29:18 PM PDT by blam
Star to be investigated for alien life
Astronomers say a star called 37 Gem offers the best chance of finding alien life.
The star, a little hotter and brighter than the sun, is on a list of 30 to be investigated by a future generation of life-seeking telescopes.
Situated a relatively close 42 light years away, it is the 37th brightest star in the constellation of Gemini.
Scientists are looking for targets for the Terrestrial Planet Finder and Darwin telescopes planned by Nasa and the European Space Agency.
Both are due to be launched in about 10 years and will be capable of finding habitable planets outside the Solar System.
Astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull, from the University of Arizona in Tucson, USA, compiled a set of criteria for choosing which stars to observe.
These included the amount of heavy metals present when a star formed and its age.
Young stars emitting bright X-rays were excluded, as were small "double" stars.
Turnbull narrowed the 5,000 or so stars within 100 light years of Earth to a shortlist of 30 and presented the list to scientists from TPF and Darwin, New Scientist magazine reported.
Her favourite was 37 Gem because it most closely resembled our sun.
"The closer we look, the more we realise how most other stars are different from the sun," she said.
Story filed: 19:09 Wednesday 8th October 2003
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alien; crevolist; for; investigated; life; star
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To: JethroHathAWay
Thankyou AndrewC! I am struggling to understand this and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain itYou are very welcome, but you credit me with entirely too much. I merely presented what I had known. It is those who did the research and wrote the article that have done the explaining. As for stumpers, I can not comprehend how some can peer down their noses at people of faith while they, without blinking, propose an uncaused cause.
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10/09/2003 10:34:05 AM PDT
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AndrewC
To: AndrewC
I can only read so far and then I give up. I cannot even imagine writing it. Anybody that can understand it; and teach it; is a genious to me.
To: blam
Who are you callling middle-aged?
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10/09/2003 11:09:48 AM PDT
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presidio9
(Countdown to 27 World Championships...)
To: JethroHathAWay
It was a joke Jethro, but the link to the Anne Coulter fan club would be appreciated.
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10/09/2003 1:44:47 PM PDT
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Ogmios
(Who is John Galt?)
To: Friend of thunder
I like the Lemmings version better.
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10/09/2003 1:50:25 PM PDT
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js1138
To: blam
Sorry but from the headline I thought this was a Cynthia McKinney news release about Arnold.
To: Ogmios
The Free Republic member known as Constitution Day can tell you about her.He has good information. He has met her in person. Here is a picture
To: Ogmios
I ran down the site for you. It is www.anncoulter.com. I think she is gorgeous. Here is another pictures from that site.
To: JethroHathAWay
I thought you meant that there was an actual fan club on FreeRepublic, You gotta love her.
Thanks!!
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10/10/2003 11:18:17 AM PDT
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Ogmios
(Who is John Galt?)
To: longshadow
Plese pardon this late response to your above cogent posts. It's good to know some of us are humbled in being aware of our "star-dust" origins.
The hubris of the "I know the truth" crowd is confounding.
Mustang sends Best FReegards from "Malpaso News"
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10/12/2003 1:22:38 PM PDT
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Mustang
(Evil Thrives When Good People Do Nothing!)
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