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  • Huge, Potentially Life-Supporting Exo-Planet Discovered

    13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Politics, Tech/Sci, Very Cool, Vibe, World
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    Screw climate change, we’ve found a new home. Well, I mean that’s my attitude whenever astronomers says they’ve found new planets within the “Goldiclocks zone” of core temperature – like the one European astronomers announced yesterday, the catchy-sounding HD85512b, which fits life support parameters, and is a little over three times the size of Earth.

    I mean, granted, HD85512b is a little warmer than Earth – ranging from 30 to 50 Celsius, with crazy high humidity, but we’re pretty much headed that way with our planet anyway, right? Less attractive is that they’re operating at about 1.4 times our own gravity strength.

    HD85512b was announced in a batch of 50 “exoplanets” by the European Southern Observatory, tracked using a planet-hunting instrument called HARPS, based in Chile.
    NASA, like that kid that really wants to be noticed, claims they’ve identified more than 50 other potentially life-supporting candidates, but these still need further investigation.

     

    [Source: Guardian]

     

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