New alien planet is perfect for life, scientists say
A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star.
The planet is located in the habitable zone of its host star, which is a narrow circumstellar region where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface.
"It's the Holy Grail of exoplanet research to find a planet around a star orbiting at the right distance so it's not too close where it would lose all its water and boil away, and not too far where it would all freeze," Steven Vogt, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told SPACE.com. "It's right smack in the habitable zone — there's no question or discussion about it. It's not on the edge, it's right in there."
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The only thing
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 18:55perfect for anything is what GOD created.
If Newt becomes
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 19:10If Newt becomes President,(please no!) he can fulfill his other planet colonization....although I think he had the moon in mind.
Alien Planet
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 08:17Only 22 light years. Hmmm! Think I'll take a leisurely stroll over there and check it out. Let's see now, light travels at 186,00 miles per second, there's 31,556,926 seconds in a year, times 22. Wow!! that's a whole lot less than our national debt. I should be back by suppertime.