New Planet Thread

[sr71blackbird]

LINK (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/name-that-waterworld)



http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/12/gj1214b-crop.jpg

A new super sized Earth like planet has been discovered orbiting a distant star. Apparently its a water covered world.

They have an official name for it, but its as exciting as H1N1, and so they are asking people to help name it.

Some of the names people are suggesting are pretty funny.

Check it out and add your own if you wish! (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/name-that-waterworld)

My favorite by Frank Stallone: Uranustune

[Furtherman]

Good idea on this thread. So many extrasolar planets have been discovered (I believe it's close to 500 now) that it's only a matter of time, that we'll most likely get to see, an Earth-type planet discovered orbiting around a star's Goldilock Zone.

[sr71blackbird]

I agree, and I think its extraordinary that they can tell what the surface of a planet is likely to have on it at this distance. Sooner or later we will hit paydirt!

[JohnCharles]

purplemonkeydishwasher

[underdog]

bunda gorda

[MC Pee Pants]

Devadander Smith

[sr71blackbird]

Splooge

[Charlie_Don't_Surf]

bunda gorda

Hahaha!! :lol::lol:

[Furtherman]

Good idea on this thread. So many extrasolar planets have been discovered (I believe it's close to 500 now) that it's only a matter of time, that we'll most likely get to see, an Earth-type planet discovered orbiting around a star's Goldilock Zone.

Ahem. Told ya...


Earth-Like Planet Can Sustain Life
Located in a solar system that parallels our own, the new world could be habitable -- or even inhabited. (http://news.discovery.com/space/earth-like-planet-life.html)

http://news.discovery.com/space/2010/09/29/exoplanet-278x225.jpg

A new planet that's the right size and location for life has been discovered 20 light-years away.

The newly discovered world exists in a solar system very similar to our own but much smaller.

Current technologies won't allow scientists to study the planet's atmosphere for chemical signs of life.

A new member in a family of planets circling a red dwarf star 20 light-years away has just been found. It's called Gliese 581g, and the 'g' may very well stand for Goldilocks.

Gliese 581g is the first world discovered beyond Earth that's the right size and location for life.

"Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it," Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.