The planet discovered is in the constellation Libra. It would take about 20 light years to get there. The thing that makes this planet different from other planets discovered outside our solar system is that it's not a gas planet (like Jupiter or Saturn). It circles a red dwarf star, and scientists think it may be able to support life. If you weigh 150 lbs here, it would feel like you weighed 240 lbs on that planet.
What do you think about this? Do you think you'd travel there (if we had the means to)? etc...
2007-04-25 05:21:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The truth is that, yes the planet was discovered using a telescope. Maybe check your facts before answering the question. It wasn't found the same way the gas planets are found...
the above is for the guy that answered...'the truth...'
2007-04-25 05:39:18 · update #1
What happens to the Miss Universe contest? Are women from this planet allowed to compete? Should they not be invited to the show...after all, its Miss Universe and they do have a right !!!
Or should we name our show Miss Earth or something more down to earth???
2007-04-25 06:06:06 · answer #1 · answered by papars 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
haha no earth-like planet has been found yet but Gliese D has been located 20 light years away around the Gliese star. It is around the habitable zone so people just assume that it must be Earthlike. The odds are that this planet is just another rock like the many we have in our own solar system, nothing special about it. But if for some reason it has water, it would then have a chance of being liquid depending on where it was on the surface. With water, it has a chance of OUR kind of life (Carbon based water consuming organisms). Its not like they saw this planet and took pictures of it. They were able to estimate a mass and size through complicated measurements of the star's wobble. Scientists think it is 2x the size of Earth and IF (probably not) there were organisms, they would probably be bigger because they are affected by the gravity of a bigger planet. That is if they are our types of life.
2016-05-18 03:23:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth?
There was no planet 'discovered'.
Some 'scientist', using a radio telescope, found a frequency deviation from a (suppossedly) known light source. this was analyzed by a computer and the output was translated by said 'scientist'.
The conjecture (as that is all it is and can be) is that certain deviations from constant and continuous wavelengths (amplitude, and frequency in the light spectrum) mean certain things, like material and size.
THESE CONCLUSIONS AND THE THEORY BEHIND THEM ARE JUST THAT THEORY!
It is not science to build one theory (that, at its outset is not provable) upon another and then declare knowledge as the end result!
The speed of light is not absolutely constant- this has been proven in laboratory settings. Light is affected by magnetic fields. Anyone denying this must also deny the precious, but unprovable theory of black holes, which states that the magnetic pull of one is such that light cannot escape (and is therefore stopped).
Our ignorance of our known world is still very great and this with a study subject at hand. our ignorance of our own solar system is even greater (as it MUST be, due to the fact that we are not able to examine it, physically). Heck there continues to rage the debate over the planet Pluto, whether it is a planet or not.
Accepting a 'discovery' of a planet over 20 light years away, and its physical attributes is not only folly, but it is a great waste of time, money and energy (even thought energy) because it can not be proved nor disproved.
These 'scientists' can make any claim and the great mass of people will believe it because they tell us to and they self-affirm that they are able to know.
In the end, what they say on the subject has NO importance to the human race!
2007-04-25 05:37:35 · answer #3 · answered by athorgarak 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The only thing we know is the gravity and the fact that the temperature is earth like. It may have a sulphuric acid ocean for a surface so the being able to support life is a very big if. It may not even have an atmosphere anymore.
2007-04-25 05:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
LOL
I would love to go there.
I am very excited about this discovery, and truly believe that there is life there.
I wouldnt mind checking it out, and taking a few snapshots.
2007-04-25 05:27:48 · answer #5 · answered by Wedge 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was just thinking this morning that we could send our pedophiles, child abusers, and murderers there.
2007-04-25 05:28:08 · answer #6 · answered by Fritzie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sign me up, I'm getting my passport updated right now . . .
2007-04-25 05:26:09 · answer #7 · answered by RationalThinker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋