"Fascinating."
Posted on 04/18/2013 5:25:14 PM PDT by Red Steel
The search for Earthlike, habitable planets beyond the Sun has been something like a boulder rolling downhill ever since the Kepler space telescope went into orbit in 2009. Before that, ground-based astronomers had been finding so-called exoplanets one or two at a time, here and there in the cosmos, and pretty much all of them were far too large to be hospitable, or much close to the fires of their parent stars, or, usually, both.
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Nobody quite imagined what the Kepler team has just announced, however. Writing in Nature, William Borucki, Kepler’s principal scientist, along with dozens of collaborators, reports the discovery of not one, but two potentially life-sustaining planets, orbiting a star some 1,200 light-years away, in the constellation Lyra. One, named Kepler-62e, is about 60 percent larger than Earth, and lies at the inner, hotter edge of the habitable zone, where water might be awfully hot but still avoid boiling away. The second, Kepler 62f, is 40 percent larger than Earth and is more comfortably within the star’s just-right region. This, said Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s astrophysics division at a press conference, “is really cool.” In astronomer-speak, that’s huge.
Borucki and the other Kepler scientists were quick to say they had no direct evidence that either planet actually has liquid water on its surface. All they know for sure is the planets’ size, and their distance from the star: 33 million mi. (53 million km) out for the larger 62e; 65 million mi. (105 million km) for the smaller 62f.
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What temperature range are they using for liquid water?
Serious question.
WHat IF they are off by a few million miles to the Sun give or take 10 million or even 12..?
The desperate search to prop up evolution ..
If Einstein was right,it would be a physical impossibility for aliens to actually visit. However Earth has been transmitting in analog for the past one hundred years and logarithmic digital signals in huge amounts for the last twenty five. Would not be surprised if an interesting “virus” is received on someone’s computer soon. In fact there may be a network of civilizations connected and relaying data yet to be received.
"Fascinating."
Someone has swallowed WAY too many happy pills. NASA these days would be lucky to "find" their collective and collectivist asses with both hands, a mirror, and a road map.
"Finding" anything would interfere with their mission of Mooslime "outreach", dontchaknow.
Sheesh.
And it will translate as "No skills, then stay away. Except cute singles.".
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OR you could be transmitting from Joe-Biden-LAnd..
Thanks Red Steel.
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An extra to APoD members.
I’m starting to get a little more than sick of these “What If” articles concerning NASA.
“For just a few Billion dollars more” we can get a little closer to the answer....
And then after Just a few Billion dollars more after that we will make an almost definitive judgement after yet another multi-billion dollar study....
What about their mass and how much more is the gravity?
Are you referring to the difference atmospheric pressure could make?
Precisely.
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