Earth-Like Extrasolar Planet?

Press conference from the NSF at 1 PM

http://nsf.gov/news/newsmedia/planetdiscovery.jsp

Thanks, Rand -- I got it from you, great story!



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Press conference from the NSF at 1 PM

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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:50:50 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Jim
Oberg" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Thanks, Rand -- I got it from you, great story!

Thanx--I got a heads up from someone at NSF this morning.

Rand Simberg wrote:
Press conference from the NSF at 1 PM

http://nsf.gov/news/newsmedia/planetdiscovery.jsp

Thanks for posting the announcement! I didn't see this feed mentioned
anywhere else but here...

Daniel Eig

On 2005-06-13, Rand Simberg wrote:
Press conference from the NSF at 1 PM

http://nsf.gov/news/newsmedia/planetdiscovery.jsp

Coo. 0.02 AU and a half-dozen earth masses, but it's certainly a
start... the envelope for detection is expanding all the time.

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In article ,
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 2005-06-13, Rand Simberg wrote:
Press conference from the NSF at 1 PM

http://nsf.gov/news/newsmedia/planetdiscovery.jsp

Coo. 0.02 AU and a half-dozen earth masses, but it's certainly a
start... the envelope for detection is expanding all the time.

If it is a little denser than Earth, it should be about
two and a bit gees at the surface? And so close to its star, quite
possibly tide-locked?
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James Nicoll wrote:

If it is a little denser than Earth, it should be about
two and a bit gees at the surface? And so close to its star, quite
possibly tide-locked?



With a two-day-long orbital period around its sun, I'd say it would
definitely be tide-locked.
The question I'd like to know the answer to is exactly how long lived is
a planet in that low of a stellar orbit?
I mean it must be almost skimming the surface of the star- I wonder if
its gravitational influence causes effects on the star's surface?

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:

If it is a little denser than Earth, it should be about
two and a bit gees at the surface? And so close to its star, quite
possibly tide-locked?


With a two-day-long orbital period around its sun, I'd say it would
definitely be tide-locked.
The question I'd like to know the answer to is exactly how long lived is
a planet in that low of a stellar orbit?
I mean it must be almost skimming the surface of the star- I wonder if
its gravitational influence causes effects on the star's surface?


y'know, back in the day Larry Niven would have been drooling all over
himself to get started writing a story set in this place.

Nowadays Niven mainly just drools all over himself g


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In article ,
Terrell Miller wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:

If it is a little denser than Earth, it should be about
two and a bit gees at the surface? And so close to its star, quite
possibly tide-locked?


With a two-day-long orbital period around its sun, I'd say it would
definitely be tide-locked.
The question I'd like to know the answer to is exactly how long lived is
a planet in that low of a stellar orbit?
I mean it must be almost skimming the surface of the star- I wonder if
its gravitational influence causes effects on the star's surface?


y'know, back in the day Larry Niven would have been drooling all over
himself to get started writing a story set in this place.

Nowadays Niven mainly just drools all over himself g


His next book reminded me of A GIFT FROM EARTH.

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In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:
The question I'd like to know the answer to is exactly how long lived is
a planet in that low of a stellar orbit?
I mean it must be almost skimming the surface of the star...

If memory serves, it's about ten stellar radii out. Stars are smaller
than you might think. :-)
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