Well-known exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, "e", in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team also refined the orbit of the planet Gliese 581 d, first discovered in 2007, placing it well within the habitable zone, where liquid water oceans could exist. These amazing discoveries are the outcome of more than four years of observations using the most successful low-mass-exoplanet hunter in the world, the HARPS spectrograph attached to the 3.6-metre ESO telescope at La Silla, Chile.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Are they accepting colonists yet?
Lightest exoplanet yet discovered
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Rule #1 for Planet "E": No Republicans! In fact, no political parties at all (but especially Republicans. We'd need a special ceremony to sanitize planet E from their scourge).
-Denny
Denny, so you are in favor of a one party political system?
Interesting.
;)
Yes! Me the king of Mars!
:)
-Denny
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