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Mutt · 04-19-2014, 11:12 AM

It is a bit bigger and somewhat colder, but a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far, astronomers announced on Thursday.

The planet, known as Kepler 186f, named after NASA?s Kepler planet-finding mission, which detected it, has a diameter of 8,700 miles, 10 percent wider than Earth, and its orbit lies within the ?Goldilocks zone? of its star, Kepler 186 ? not too hot, not too cold, where temperatures could allow for liquid water to flow at the surface, making it potentially hospitable for life.

?Kepler 186f is the first validated, Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star,? Elisa V. Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA?s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., said at a news conference on Thursday. ?It has the right size and is at the right distance to have properties similar to our home planet.?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/sc...usin.html?_r=2

04-19-2014, 11:12 AM
Mutt Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 34,431	Nobody mentioned the discovery of a planet similar to Earth? It is a bit bigger and somewhat colder, but a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far, astronomers announced on Thursday. The planet, known as Kepler 186f, named after NASA?s Kepler planet-finding mission, which detected it, has a diameter of 8,700 miles, 10 percent wider than Earth, and its orbit lies within the ?Goldilocks zone? of its star, Kepler 186 ? not too hot, not too cold, where temperatures could allow for liquid water to flow at the surface, making it potentially hospitable for life. ?Kepler 186f is the first validated, Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star,? Elisa V. Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA?s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., said at a news conference on Thursday. ?It has the right size and is at the right distance to have properties similar to our home planet.? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/sc...usin.html?_r=2 __________________ I moved my sites to Vacares Hosting. I've saved money, my hair is thicker, lost some weight too! Thanks Sly! Last edited by Mutt; 04-19-2014 at 11:16 AM..