Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life?

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This is a bit interesting.

WASHINGTON – Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right.

Not too far from its star, not too close. So it could contain liquid water. The planet itself is neither too big nor too small for the proper surface, gravity and atmosphere.

It's just right. Just like Earth.

This really is the first Goldilocks planet, said co-discoverer R. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

To read more, click here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100929/ap_on_sc/us_sci_new_earths

 

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Cool. After we distroy this planet, we can go live there.

 

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But there are still many unanswered questions about this strange planet. It is about three times the mass of Earth, slightly larger in width and much closer to its star — 14 million miles away versus 93 million. It's so close to its version of the sun that it orbits every 37 days. And it doesn't rotate much, so one side is almost always bright, the other dark.

Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between — in the land of constant sunrise — it would be shirt-sleeve weather, said co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

It's unknown whether water actually exists on the planet, and what kind of atmosphere it has. But because conditions are ideal for liquid water, and because there always seems to be life on Earth where there is water, Vogt believes that chances for life on this planet are 100 percent.

I'm not too sure I'd want to live there

 

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Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero

 

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Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero

Like any of us could really even possibly survive that.

 

[Sariki]

of course we could didn't you hear? we could make a giant missile too move it further away were america lol. Anyways it's a interesting find i can say that much who knows mayber there is life there.

 

[Sariki]

it's ok we can just shoot a missile at it and move it further away from its sun we are american and we rock like that. We are fantastic at messing things up. Anyways you never know what there is out ther I guess it's a matter of time before we go over there