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Near Earth-Sized Planet Discovered

I wonder if they have bowling alleys?

Kepler-21b: Near Earth-Sized Planet Discovered 352 Light-Years Away

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory announced on Wednesday the discovery of Kepler-21b, a new planet that's close to the size of earth and is only about 352 light years away.

"By astronomical standards, that's right next door," Katy Garmany, the Deputy Press Officer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, told HuffPost.

Astronomers frequently discover new planets (according to Time magazine, we're up to over 2,000), but Garmany said that what's exciting about Kepler 21-b is that the planet is relatively Earth-sized. While its mass is about 10 times the size of our planet, its radius is only 1.6 times the size of Earth's.

Check it out - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/kepler-21b-new-planet-discovered_n_1121938.html

I am awestruck by this. 

"By astronomical standards, that's right next door," Katy Garmany

dont fancy trying to borrow their hedge clippers though!

who wants to go? we could make a day trip out of it.

Dudeism: the final frontier. These are the semis of the starship Duderprise (if you're not into the whole brevity thing). Its five-year flashback: to explore strange new coitus, to seek out new female forms and new In And Out Burgers, to boldly bowl where no dude has bowled before. Fuckin' eh!



...those are good burgers, Walter. Shut the fuck up, Donny.

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on December 03, 2011, 04:06:50 AM

What is that? Some kind of Eastern thing?

Quote from: Landshark on December 03, 2011, 05:34:41 AM

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on December 03, 2011, 04:06:50 AM

What is that? Some kind of Eastern thing?

Perhaps a captured alien spacecraft?

Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed..........

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own.

The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C.

It is the closest confirmed planet yet to one like ours - an "Earth 2.0".



Check out - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16040655

UK radio is only just beginning to report this (what are they trying to cover up?)

plans to make earth prime a garbage dump and send the best and brightest to earth 2 as an experiment in eugenics.

But that's just like...my opinion man.

/sarcasm

Quote from: Landshark on December 06, 2011, 06:54:57 AM
plans to make earth prime a garbage dump and send the best and brightest to earth 2 as an experiment in eugenics.

But that's just like...my opinion man.

/sarcasm

Ah the old Stark Conspiracy theory!

Quote from: meekon5 on December 06, 2011, 08:05:38 AM

Quote from: Landshark on December 06, 2011, 06:54:57 AM
plans to make earth prime a garbage dump and send the best and brightest to earth 2 as an experiment in eugenics.

But that's just like...my opinion man.

/sarcasm

Ah the old Stark Conspiracy theory!

Or Google's "Plan B" ...buy a new planet and move everyone there.

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on December 06, 2011, 09:36:19 PM

Or Google's "Plan B" ...buy a new planet and move everyone there.

Or (as H2G2, The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, is mentioned elsewhere recently) Douglas Adams wonderful idea of the "B" Ark.

Quote from: meekon5 on December 07, 2011, 06:01:31 AM

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on December 06, 2011, 09:36:19 PM

Or Google's "Plan B" ...buy a new planet and move everyone there.

Or (as H2G2, The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, is mentioned elsewhere recently) Douglas Adams wonderful idea of the "B" Ark.

That's why I've always been a little funny about the cleanliness of my telephone