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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Haizenberg on January 25, 2013, 06:56 pm
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An alien planet spotted by Nasa's Kepler space telescope is the best candidate yet for an Earth-like world beyond our solar system, Scientists claim.
The planet - whose existence is yet to be positively confirmed. has a radius that is just 1.5 times that of our own and orbits in the 'habitable zone' of a star similar to our own Sun.
That means the planet would likely have a similar amount of gravity as Earth and liquid water could exist on its surface - making it a prime candidate to host alien life.
The possible planet is called KOI 172.02 - with the initial trio of letters standing for Kepler Object of Interest, a prefix given to all planetary candidates found by Kepler until their existence is confirmed.
Dr Batalha said the find had the potential to be the closest so far to an Earth-twin beyond the solar system. It orbits a G-type star that is only slightly cooler than our own Sun, she said.
'Previously the ones we saw were orbiting other types of stars,' she was quoted as saying by SPACE.com.
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Nice post, thought I'd bump this since it was getting ignored.
How they find it? From the slight wobble or from it passing between the star and us?
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Very interesting
I wonder if space colonization will every become a reality in the future.
STOP THE OIL DEPENDENCY AND LETS LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR ENERGY
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If I'm not mistaken the closest star system is 2-3 lightyears away. Is it the Centauri system which is a dual-star system or did i just get that from sci-fi novels...? That's very very far when you think about our current propulsion drives, the Ion drive was interesting though but with America in a financial crisis they scrapped the shuttle and many other programs like testing new propulsion systems... Anyone wanna come in here and share you're Sagan-like wisdom on this?
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