New ^Super Earth^ Found page 1
terrific
4th February 2012, 05:40 PM
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A new planet—probably a rocky super-Earth—has been found squarely within its star's habitable zone, making it one of the best candidates yet to support life, its discoverers say.
The planet, dubbed GJ 667Cc, orbits a red dwarf star 22 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio. A binary pair of orange dwarf stars are part of the same system.
(Related: "'Tatooine' Planet With Two Suns Could Host Habitable Moon?")
The new planet has a mass 4.5 times that of Earth and orbits its host star every 28 days.
The red dwarf is relatively dim, so the planet receives slightly less light from its star than Earth does from the sun. But most of the star's light is infrared, so the planet should absorb more of its incoming energy than Earth does from sunlight.
That means if the planet has a rocky surface—which is predicted for planets less than ten times Earth's mass—and an atmosphere, it could support liquid water and maybe life, said co-discoverer Guillem Anglada-Escudé, who conducted the work while at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.
"If it has an atmosphere, it's probably reddish all the time, because the star is really red," Anglada-Escudé said. "It would be like being evening all the time."
For any hypothetical observers on the surface, the binary stars in the distance would be "very prominent in the sky, and it would be an exotic thing."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120202-new-planet-super-earth-habitable-zone-life-space-science/
A new planet—probably a rocky super-Earth—has been found squarely within its star's habitable zone, making it one of the best candidates yet to support life, its discoverers say.
The planet, dubbed GJ 667Cc, orbits a red dwarf star 22 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio. A binary pair of orange dwarf stars are part of the same system.
(Related: "'Tatooine' Planet With Two Suns Could Host Habitable Moon?")
The new planet has a mass 4.5 times that of Earth and orbits its host star every 28 days.
The red dwarf is relatively dim, so the planet receives slightly less light from its star than Earth does from the sun. But most of the star's light is infrared, so the planet should absorb more of its incoming energy than Earth does from sunlight.
That means if the planet has a rocky surface—which is predicted for planets less than ten times Earth's mass—and an atmosphere, it could support liquid water and maybe life, said co-discoverer Guillem Anglada-Escudé, who conducted the work while at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.
"If it has an atmosphere, it's probably reddish all the time, because the star is really red," Anglada-Escudé said. "It would be like being evening all the time."
For any hypothetical observers on the surface, the binary stars in the distance would be "very prominent in the sky, and it would be an exotic thing."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120202-new-planet-super-earth-habitable-zone-life-space-science/
Prince Humperdinck
27th March 2017, 03:35 PM
The new planet has a mass 4.5 times that of Earth and orbits its host star every 28 days.
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spruce
27th March 2017, 07:16 PM
But it's year is around 28 days so borealis would be like age 793 and swamped in birthday cake and wax residue.
nostrum
27th March 2017, 07:28 PM
Is this about Planet Nine?
spruce
27th March 2017, 10:24 PM
Sounds more like Krypton. I'm pretty sure. And guess what? They didn't find no Kryptonians...
...yet.
...yet.
gib
27th March 2017, 10:27 PM
2012 might as well have not happened
spruce
27th March 2017, 10:30 PM
You're saying it was invisiblated or maybe cloaked by Romulans?
nostrum
27th March 2017, 11:12 PM
yeah it was a totally shit year
borealis
28th March 2017, 12:24 AM
I already don't remember it, but then I'm 793. I think I ate some of the wax.
MSG
28th March 2017, 02:00 AM
Who gave spruce borealis's password?
Timewave
31st March 2017, 05:31 AM
Probably bor and she can't remember?
Give her a break, she's almost a thousand and snowed in.:nod:
Husband off ploughing other women's yards.:nod:
Give her a break, she's almost a thousand and snowed in.:nod:
Husband off ploughing other women's yards.:nod:
MSG
31st March 2017, 05:34 AM
He's rolled the ATV again huh
Timewave
31st March 2017, 05:35 AM
That's His story.:nod:
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