This guy told me that a planet that could hold life was discovered. Any details?
2007-05-10 15:27:23 · 6 answers · asked by Dreamer 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I never said it does hold life, I said it could hold life.
2007-05-10 15:39:12 · update #1
Gliese 561 c. We think it may hold life (or at least the capability). It's bigger than our own planet.....and it's within the Habitable Zone (distance between it and the Red Dwarf is sufficient for reasonable temps).
Unfortunately we think it doesn't rotate on it's axis...so one side is glaring hot while the other side is bone cold. (Perhaps around the terminator lies comfortable temperatures and liquid water? The real question is there still geothermic activity/presence of vulcanism on the planet's surface? That will dramatically improve chances of life greatly on the planet's surface!)
2007-05-10 16:58:14 · answer #1 · answered by Charlie Bravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when the guy said a planet that could hold life i think he meant has life , and a planet that has life is earth so that was really something he said that confused you.
2007-05-10 16:25:15 · answer #2 · answered by nessa010 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope... but they did find a planet that is in the habitable zone of another star... check the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet
For some reason, people hear "habitable zone" and immediately think we found life on another planet... Gliese 581c might be capable of harboring life... but we don't know for sure if there actually is any life on that planet.
2007-05-10 15:32:02 · answer #3 · answered by John T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's wrong. It has twice the earth's gravity and similar temperatures. We don't know if it has an atmosphere and in fact it could be covered in sulfuric acid. The plus side is that at shuttle speeds it's only 800,000 years away.
2007-05-10 15:32:51 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Scientists say that it "may be possible to have the potential to support water"
They say where there is water, there is life.
2007-05-10 15:50:34 · answer #5 · answered by Fatboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the trick phrase is .....life.......perhap,s not as we know it to exist.......but that doesn't mean it does not......many form,s of life ...[right here...on our own planet] ....are .....at best....a stretch of the imagination.......life elsewhere is not only likely...but is probable.........even in the bible.....it say,s that god created life.......but it doesn't say that this was the only place that he did this......it would be very arrogant to think that life exist,s only here....that somehow were special......maybe we are but so would life elsewhere...be special!
2007-05-10 16:15:55 · answer #6 · answered by slipstream 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋