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| Posted: Mon Dec 5th, 2011 11:34 pm |
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Spaceview Go Yankees !!! 
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 Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface temperature perhaps averaging a balmy 72 degrees. The planet, Kepler 22b, about 2.4 times wider than Earth, circles a star about 600 light years away, close by astronomical standards. The Kepler space telescope discovery team announced the find at a briefing at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "It is right smack in the middle of the habitable zone," Kepler scientist Natalie Batalha says. Launched in 2009, the $591 million Kepler space telescope has detected more than 2,000 possible planets observed among about 150,000 stars within 3,000 light years of Earth along the "Orion spur" of our Milky Way galaxy. Kepler 22b's discovery caps a half-decade of astronomers searching for a "Goldilocks" planet — not too hot or not too cold to harbor oceans on its surface, like Earth. Liquid water is considered key for development of life. "This is a phenomenal discovery in the course of human history," says planet hunting pioneer Geoff Marcy of the University of California-Berkeley, a Kepler investigator. European astronomers discovered the first planet confirmed orbiting a nearby star in 1995, spurring a gold rush of planet discoveries, mostly jumbo planets the size of Jupiter or larger. Kepler 22b "is the smallest, most nearly Earth-size, planet ever found in the lukewarm zone around another sun where life could thrive." MORE
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| Posted: Mon Dec 5th, 2011 11:54 pm |
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Time Traveler Rob. Sorry for the typos! 
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Very interesting! I have to read up the literature on this! Thanks! Rob
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| Posted: Tue Dec 6th, 2011 12:20 am |
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tinknocker Watch Freek 
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First in many, no doubt. Now trying to get to them, that will be a major breakthrough.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 6th, 2011 12:22 am |
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Time Traveler Rob. Sorry for the typos!
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Not going to happen until we harness dark matter. That wont happen because we dont invest in the future these days. Still nice to see it being found. Rob
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| Posted: Tue Dec 6th, 2011 12:28 am |
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Spaceview Go Yankees !!!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 6th, 2011 12:46 am |
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WATCHURSELF SEIKO SENSEI 
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It's K-PAX -they found K-PAX!!!! 
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| Posted: Tue Dec 6th, 2011 01:56 am |
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Zenrag D'affliction is the addiction! 
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The best quote I heard on the news today was they called it the "GOLDILOCKS" planet: Not too warm and not too cold, just right for the potential of life on another planet.
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