New planet?

Question

Has anyone heard about the new planet just found?I think i also heard that there is water on it and the temperature is about 40 degrees i think.But is this true?

Answer 1

First of all there is Gliese 581c with earth like water ..
http://news.google.com/news?um=1&tab=wn&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Gliese+581+c

And for the latest one ..
I am an Astronomer and I have the answer for you wonderers ..
Planet GJ 436b . This is in our database .

A group led by Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley announced yesterday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu that it had discovered 28 new planets.The team has expanded on the recent discovery of the "hot ice" planet, GJ 436b, which revolves around GJ 436 (pictured). Marcy said the new data shows that there is a large amount of water on the planet's surface."From the density of two grams per cubic centimeter -- twice that of water -- it must be 50 percent rock and about 50 percent water, with perhaps small amounts of hydrogen and helium," Marcy said.
"Now we are very sure it has a rocky core and this giant thick envelope of water," he added."This is why we are jumping out of our clothes. It is the first time we have determined the structure of one of these extrasolar planets. It is rocky like Earth but it has a lot of water which is the essential ingredient for life."Still, the best part of this announcement is that apparently the best exoplanets are yet to come, said UC Berkeley post-doctoral fellow Jason T. Wright, in a statement.
"We're just now getting to the point where, if we were observing our own solar system from afar, we would be seeing Jupiter," he said, pointing out that the teams' Doppler technique is now sensitive to stellar wobbles of a meter per second, much less than the 10-meter per second limit they started out with 15 years ago.

Answer 2

Sounds to me like you are refering to Gliese 581c. Try Googling that, you'll probably get zillions of hits.

The star Gliese 581 is a nearby red dwarf, about 20 light years away in the constellation Leo. The planet 581c is quite close and goes around in about 14 Earth days but because the star is smaller and dimmer than our Sun the temperature, assuming there is an atmosphere to distribute heat around the body could be in the range from freezing to 40 degrees Celsius. There are two other planets in the system 581b and 581d. The new objects 581c and 581d were announced by European scientists using the HARPS spectrograph.

Answer 3

They cannot have found another planet. Given the strict guidelines for defining a planet, no one can say that anything outside of our solar system truly meets those requirements.

Further, it is claimed that since Pluto's orbit is not clear that it is not a planet. Yet the bodies which intersect Pluto's orbit are still called planets. Strictly speaking, they too should no longer be called planets.

Answer 4

never heard of it. maybe what u are trying to describe is the new planet Sedna

Answer 5

don't we all want to know....it will only lead to more and more mysteries..i just wish we can get a correct answer.

if they did find a new planet it would be top confidential.

Answer 6

hope so but like the guy above me said they wouldnt tell everyone till they were sure

Answer 7

ceres