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To: FostersExport

Some scientists are desperate for fame. They will say anything to get into the news. The news media comply and use words like “another earth”, “habitable planet”, and other fantasies.
It is much too soon to know if the planet is earthlike.


4 posted on 04/25/2007 3:12:45 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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This exoplanet is the closest in size to Earth so far found, and is in its star system’s habitable zone.


8 posted on 04/25/2007 3:16:04 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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It is much too soon to know if the planet is earthlike.

Well, it's also the FIRST terrestrial planet found inside the life zone of another star. That's big news.

66 posted on 04/26/2007 7:50:32 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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