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Old March 9th 11, 09:44 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default Kepler's Earth-like planet not Earth-like.

Bigger, hotter, and not habitable:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80...snt-habitable/
NASA adds another one to it's recent spate of flaky space biology stories.

Pat
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Old March 9th 11, 11:29 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
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Default Kepler's Earth-like planet not Earth-like.

On Mar 9, 9:44*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Bigger, hotter, and not habitable:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80...clusive-most-e...
NASA adds another one to it's recent spate of flaky space biology stories..

Pat


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Old March 9th 11, 11:33 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
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Default Kepler's Earth-like planet not Earth-like.

On Mar 9, 11:29*pm, Bash wrote:
On Mar 9, 9:44*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:



Bigger, hotter, and not habitable:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80...clusive-most-e...
NASA adds another one to it's recent spate of flaky space biology stories.


Pat

Its not as if they know for sure which star it is orbiting. Lol

First post to a group from my mobile too! :-)
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Old March 9th 11, 11:37 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
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Default Kepler's Earth-like planet not Earth-like.

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:44:54 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Bigger, hotter, and not habitable:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80...snt-habitable/
NASA adds another one to it's recent spate of flaky space biology stories.


Frankly, I think all of this "a star wobbled a bit, or blinked a
little so it must have a planet" theorizing to be dubious at best.

Brian
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Old March 10th 11, 05:09 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default Kepler's Earth-like planet not Earth-like.

On 3/9/2011 3:37 PM, Brian Thorn wrote:
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:44:54 -0800, Pat
wrote:

Bigger, hotter, and not habitable:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80...snt-habitable/
NASA adds another one to it's recent spate of flaky space biology stories.


Frankly, I think all of this "a star wobbled a bit, or blinked a
little so it must have a planet" theorizing to be dubious at best.


You would have thought they would have spotted that little two-star
problem before they issued the initial report...instead of having
Discover Magazine spot it for them.

Pat

 




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