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Old July 28th 12, 03:08 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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The discovery of Gliese 581g was announced in September 2010 by a
US-led team. But as soon as they made the announcement, doubts began
to surface. The team at the Geneva observatory which had discovered
all four other planets around the star Gliese 581 failed to detect it
in their own data. But the original discoverers of 581g have now
published an analysis using more data to provide more promising
evidence for its existence.

This would be significant because the Earth Similarity Index (ESI),
devised by a team including Dirk Schulze-Makuch from Washington State
University and Abel Mendez from the Arecibo Observatory, shows that
Gliese 581g is the most Earth-like planet discovered to date. The ESI
measures characteristics of exoplanets on a scale from zero to one,
with one being identical to Earth. Accordingly, the online Habitable
Exoplanets Catalog has decided to include it in their list of the most
promising worlds to support life.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19008908

Would someone explain this to me really slow? The planet most like
earth is a planet that we are not even sure exists.

Not too hot, not too cold, not sure it's there.
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Old July 28th 12, 05:36 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Brad Guth[_3_]
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On Jul 27, 7:08*pm, Metspitzer wrote:
The discovery of Gliese 581g was announced in September 2010 by a
US-led team. But as soon as they made the announcement, doubts began
to surface. The team at the Geneva observatory which had discovered
all four other planets around the star Gliese 581 failed to detect it
in their own data. But the original discoverers of 581g have now
published an analysis using more data to provide more promising
evidence for its existence.

This would be significant because the Earth Similarity Index (ESI),
devised by a team including Dirk Schulze-Makuch from Washington State
University and Abel Mendez from the Arecibo Observatory, shows that
Gliese 581g is the most Earth-like planet discovered to date. The ESI
measures characteristics of exoplanets on a scale from zero to one,
with one being identical to Earth. Accordingly, the online Habitable
Exoplanets Catalog has decided to include it in their list of the most
promising worlds to support life.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19008908

Would someone explain this to me really slow? *The planet most like
earth is a planet that we are not even sure exists.

Not too hot, not too cold, not sure it's there.


If there's any public funding, then it likely does exist.

If only private funding is what discovered 581g, then it probably
doesn't exist.

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Old July 28th 12, 08:51 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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DO YOU HAVE A VALID REASON FOR SUCH A STUPID STATEMENT, GOOF?

Saul Levy


On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:36:52 -0700 (PDT), Brad Guth
wrote:

If there's any public funding, then it likely does exist.

If only private funding is what discovered 581g, then it probably
doesn't exist.

Brad Guth, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW INSANE I AM!

 




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