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To: Sopater; RadioAstronomer
“We have estimated that the mean temperature of this super-Earth lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid,” said Stéphane Udry from the Geneva Observatory, Switzerland and lead-author of the paper in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

“Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth’s radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky – like our Earth – or covered with oceans,” he said.

AWESOME .... probably about 2 - 2.5G on the surface but if it's got liquid water it's got life.

What's ironic as hell is that red dwarfs are the most common star out there. We could be the exception (having a main sequence star primary) rather than the rule.

Of course it's probably tidally locked which will limit the habitable portions of the planet as well.

Weather patterns should be interesting as well.

60 posted on 04/24/2007 3:17:28 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: Centurion2000
if it's got liquid water it's got life.

That's quite a statement, given that we have exactly one data point.
95 posted on 04/24/2007 7:43:18 PM PDT by newguy357
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To: Centurion2000
probably about 2 - 2.5G on the surface but if it's got liquid water it's got life.

That's an enormous assumption with no empirical data in our solar system (that we've found yet) to back it up.
140 posted on 04/25/2007 6:42:58 AM PDT by JamesP81 (Eph 6:12)
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