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Offline Nemesis

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Goldilocks planet?
« on: November 07, 2012, 06:54:39 pm »
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One, dubbed HD 40307g, weighs at least seven times more than Earth and orbits the star on a 200-day "year" in the region amenable to liquid oceans on planets.


Around 7 times the Earths mass. 
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Re: Goldilocks planet?
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2012, 09:06:35 pm »
43 light years away. Hmmmm.
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Re: Goldilocks planet?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2012, 08:00:12 pm »
I saw a small blurb on this on my newsreader, and then forgot. Good catch Nem, and very interesting.

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Re: Goldilocks planet?
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2012, 06:11:59 pm »
I wonder if they can distinguish between a planet and a binary planet in the low mass ranges yet.
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Re: Goldilocks planet?
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2012, 09:00:34 am »
Assuming it has a rocky surface, how much would we weigh there? Seven times earth? I need to go a diet....
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Re: Goldilocks planet?
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2012, 12:23:46 pm »
Not enough data to say.  Mars 10% Earth mass 38% gravity.  The moon 1.2% earth mass 16.6% gravity.
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