Unfortunately this Earth size planet orbits its sun every 3.6 days, making it uninhabital. However, it has been suggested that other Earth size planets might exist in that sun's habitital zone. ----- Original Message ----- From: utah-astronomy-request@mailman.xmission.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:26:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Utah-Astronomy Digest, Vol 116, Issue 55 Send Utah-Astronomy mailing list submissions to utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to utah-astronomy-request@mailman.xmission.com You can reach the person managing the list at utah-astronomy-owner@mailman.xmission.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Utah-Astronomy digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System (Siegfried Jachmann) 2. Re: Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System (Chuck Hards) 3. Re: Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System (Joe Bauman) 4. Re: Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System (Daniel Holmes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:51:21 -0600 From: Siegfried Jachmann <siegfried@jachmann.org> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System Message-ID: <CAH4Gk7iN-WmU=T6nuo=0cRzUUUv0NQrHk3+h_Urvabdr-Hx1iQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Fantastic On Oct 16, 2012 5:45 PM, "Wiggins Patrick" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Planet Found in Nearest Star System to Earth
ESO?s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri B
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system ? the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO?s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012.
The release, images and videos are available on: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/
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------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:56:15 -0600 From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System Message-ID: <CAHmuOYpzwck0mfs=-y8EZqDg3L1WWXuBWh042PhNfsKGmKGZ-A@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I was born a thousand years too soon. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:14:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System Message-ID: <1350432892.96523.YahooMailNeo@web125104.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 "Lightest"-- that implies a gas pipsqueak, I think. -- Joe ________________________________ From: Wiggins Patrick <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:44 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System Planet Found in Nearest Star System to Earth ESO?s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri B European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system ? the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO?s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012. The release, images and videos are available on: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/ patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:26:31 -0600 From: Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Earth-Mass Planet Found in Nearest Star System Message-ID: <734B8009-2526-4207-9940-C2E4C3B0949A@holmesonics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Interesting that a few days after Baumgartner breaks the warp barrier, we discover a planet orbiting the system Zephram Cochrane retired to. Coincidence? I think not! Patrick--I've heard that this news was broken prematurely due to a Croatian astronomer breaking the embargo on this press release. Nature and ESO wanted to release this tomorrow with lots of science writers backing this up with more information...do you know anything about that? (I guess I'm asking if in your role with NASA if you get this type of info early as well) Thanks, Dan On Oct 16, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Planet Found in Nearest Star System to Earth
ESO?s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri B
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system ? the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO?s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012.
The release, images and videos are available on: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/
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-- Daniel Holmes, danielh@holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php End of Utah-Astronomy Digest, Vol 116, Issue 55 ***********************************************