On 10/17/12 5:14 PM, G=EMC^2 wrote:
On Oct 17, 3:27 pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 10/16/12 10:16 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:

Finally, the closest star system to our own shows signs of having
planets! I would've thought if we were to discover planets in any star
system, it would've been discovered here first! After about 1000 other
planets discovered, the first one in the Alpha Centauri system have been
found. This one orbits around Alpha Centauri B. Still awaiting planets
around AC A, and Proxima Centauri.

Yousuf Khan

Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around Nearest Star | Wired
Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...alpha-centauri

ScienceShot: Earth's Ugly Twin







http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...ot-earths-ugly...

WOW goes around fast Mercury goes around in 58 days. How big is the
star its obiting? TreBert


http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/rigil-kent.html