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Gliese 581g: 3-Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone
jekbradbury
post Sep 30 2010, 12:39 AM
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Announced today by Steven Vogt of UC Santa Cruz and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution, bringing the total count of planets around that phenomenal little star (just 20 light years away, too!) to six or seven.
Discovery paper
Press release
Announcement press conference at the National Science Foundation
Good summary from Science
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- jekbradbury   Gliese 581g: 3-Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone   Sep 30 2010, 12:39 AM
- - nprev   Let the mass misinterpretations begin (see headlin...   Sep 30 2010, 02:06 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   We are all reminded to review the forum guidelines...   Sep 30 2010, 02:38 AM
|- - stevesliva   It is said that this planet is probably tidally lo...   Sep 30 2010, 04:40 AM
- - nprev   Words to post by, Dan.   Sep 30 2010, 02:55 AM
- - Explorer1   Is there any method of actually confirming whether...   Sep 30 2010, 06:52 AM
- - Juramike   Infrared spectroscopy might be able to do it by lo...   Sep 30 2010, 12:07 PM
- - dmuller   Time to revive projects Icarus, Daedalus and Longs...   Sep 30 2010, 01:00 PM
|- - scalbers   QUOTE (dmuller @ Sep 30 2010, 01:00 PM) T...   Sep 30 2010, 08:47 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (scalbers @ Sep 30 2010, 04:47 PM) ...   Sep 30 2010, 09:14 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   There was a paper posted on Arxiv in the last coup...   Sep 30 2010, 02:36 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Sep 30 2010, 10:36 AM...   Sep 30 2010, 03:19 PM
|- - Drkskywxlt   Juramike...I've seen some papers like that. M...   Sep 30 2010, 06:48 PM
- - djellison   Despite Dan reminding you all in this very thread ...   Sep 30 2010, 06:02 PM
- - Explorer1   Mercury was thought for many years to be tidally l...   Sep 30 2010, 07:29 PM
- - Hungry4info   That was before we understood spin-orbit resonance...   Sep 30 2010, 07:41 PM
- - bjb   Does anyone know if a moon would be detected by th...   Sep 30 2010, 08:19 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (bjb @ Sep 30 2010, 09:19 PM) Does ...   Sep 30 2010, 09:59 PM
|- - SFJCody   The media are going to make 'Astronomers find ...   Sep 30 2010, 10:32 PM
- - Juramike   Excellent point.   Sep 30 2010, 09:36 PM
- - brellis   If it's tidally locked, can you still catch wa...   Sep 30 2010, 09:47 PM

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