6 Dec
2011
6 Dec
'11
9:19 a.m.
I finally got to this story via various websites, but it looks like a LOT of speculation going on. "Earth-like" has a broad meaning and I'm sure the general public doesn't get that. K22-b could be anything from a frozen ball to a hellish Venus, to something we can't even think of currently. I also noticed that in the graphic published showing the habitable zones of both the solar system and K22 system, earth now resides at the inner edge. When I was young, that zone used to extend in to the orbit of Venus.