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Post by dbh on Dec 28, 2012 20:06:59 GMT 1
From space.com www.space.com/19044-alien-earth-exoplanets-2013.html I find the first paragraph particularly interesting. The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, an epic discovery that would cause humanity to reassess its place in the universe. While astronomers have found a number of exoplanets over the last few years that share one or two key traits with our own world — such as size or inferred surface temperature — they have yet to bag a bona fide "alien Earth." But that should change in 2013, scientists say. I wonder if they already know where this planet is.
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webrat
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Post by webrat on Mar 1, 2013 20:56:50 GMT 1
This is a very exciting time,between Kepler and the HARPS projects many worlds have already been found.I especially like HARPS' chances because it detects gravitational 'wobbles' of stars so that the planet does not have to be orbiting in a plane that we can observe directly by the faint light changes of a planets transitas in the case with the Kepler project.
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