When do you think that we will find a Earth like planet??
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2 posted on
07/13/2005 5:08:52 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
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To: KevinDavis
Hundreds have been found - getting there will be a bitch.
3 posted on
07/13/2005 5:12:33 PM PDT by
Solamente
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4 posted on
07/13/2005 5:12:37 PM PDT by
Irish_Thatcherite
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To: KevinDavis
Ready for launch!
5 posted on
07/13/2005 5:12:43 PM PDT by
JOE6PAK
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To: KevinDavis
Is it a red planet or a blue planet?
7 posted on
07/13/2005 5:25:03 PM PDT by
Buck W.
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9 posted on
07/13/2005 5:28:50 PM PDT by
Beaker
To: KevinDavis
At the rate our imaging and detection technology is advancing I think we'll spot something "earthlike" within the next ten years.
10 posted on
07/13/2005 5:29:18 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
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To: KevinDavis
I've always loved these "artist's renditions"...
12 posted on
07/13/2005 5:45:18 PM PDT by
Redcloak
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To: KevinDavis
Nightfall by Azimov
13 posted on
07/13/2005 5:46:48 PM PDT by
muir_redwoods
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To: KevinDavis
Rent the movie Pitch Black. They depict 3 suns around that planet also.
To: KevinDavis
When do you think that we will find a Earth like planet?? Step outdoors. That is probably the only one, although it might be possible to find one of the right mass, etc. Venus or Mars, for example, and get Kyoto to suggest an economic way to improve the climate.
17 posted on
07/13/2005 6:21:26 PM PDT by
RightWhale
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"How that planet formed in such a complicated setting is very puzzling. I believe there is yet much to be learned about how giant planets are formed," Konacki said.
Capture!
22 posted on
07/14/2005 10:16:47 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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23 posted on
07/14/2005 10:18:11 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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probably a dead link, but I didn't check it.
Europe's Science Machine
by Govert Schilling
Apart from the four main (8.2 meter) telescopes, ESO is planning at least three 1.8-meter auxiliary telescopes to increase the interferometric capabilities of the VLT. In interferometric mode, signals from two or more telescopes are combined to yield the same resolution as a single 130-meter mirror.
24 posted on
07/14/2005 10:19:22 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: KevinDavis
We've found lots of planets, but it's unlikely that we'll spot anything Earth-like until the Terrestrial Planet Finder launches in 2014. Note that I define "Earth-like" as any planet between .5 and 1.5 Earth masses with an atmosphere, which resides in a stable orbit within the habitable zone around an equally stable star. "Earth-like" doesn't mean life...it's likely that any planets we find will either be completely sterile, or they will have plant life completely unlike anything we've ever seen. These Star Trek shows where people stumble across planets thickly forested with redwoods and conifers are pure fantasy.
28 posted on
08/19/2006 8:13:43 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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29 posted on
08/19/2006 8:14:18 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: KevinDavis
All that sunlight would burn out your lawn.
To: KevinDavis; SunkenCiv
WOW. that sounds pretty cool
31 posted on
08/19/2006 11:01:06 PM PDT by
GeronL
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To: KevinDavis
Hmm this part is interesting:
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The reason for this disparity is that the main technique for locating planets -- the radial velocity method -- is not well-suited for finding planets with more than one star.
"Single stars are much easier to work with, since the shape of the spectrum stays the same," Konacki explained.
By watching for wobbles in a stars spectrum, astronomers can infer the gravitational tug from a nearby planet. But when there is a companion star, its light competes with that of the main star. Konacki has developed a method to extract the planet wobbles from this messy, combined spectrum. He found this triple-sun planet in the first 20 stars he looked at. He plans to survey about 450 stars in the future.
The discovery is reported in the July 14 issue of Nature. Animations created by JPL's PlanetQuest show the orbital motion of the system, as well as what it looks like from a hypothetical moon.
42 posted on
08/22/2006 1:03:09 AM PDT by
ChadGore
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