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Earth-sized Planet around our Nearest Stellar Neighbor

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:04 pm
by CommRLock78
This is really exciting news :mrgreen: !
Alpha Centauri Bb

Re: Earth-sized Planet around our Nearest Stellar Neighbor

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:16 pm
by Cody
Heh... pay attention at the back there!

Re: Earth-sized Planet around our Nearest Stellar Neighbor

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:17 pm
by Rese249er
I'm awake, Teach, I swear!

Re: Earth-sized Planet around our Nearest Stellar Neighbor

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:22 pm
by CommRLock78
El Viejo wrote:
Heh... pay attention at the back there!
Man - I knew I should have looked a little further, I just figured that there would be a new post about it, so when there wasn't, I thought I was in the clear :oops: .

:lol: Rese249er

Re: Earth-sized Planet around our Nearest Stellar Neighbor

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:28 pm
by Cody
Rese249er wrote:
I'm awake, Teach, I swear!
<chuckles - turns back to the blackboard>

It is really exciting news though!

Re: Earth-sized Planet around our Nearest Stellar Neighbor

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:31 pm
by Rese249er
Indeed... One must wonder what a lava world would look like... An OXP with one right near the sun would be cool.

Re: Earth-sized Planet around our Nearest Stellar Neighbor

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:36 pm
by CommRLock78
Rese249er wrote:
Indeed... One must wonder what a lava world would look like... An OXP with one right near the sun would be cool.
That or a carbon world - those have been tickling my interest, it's an interesting consideration, the relative amounts of matter in a solar system (ours being an "Oxygen rich" system).

Re: Earth-sized Planet around our Nearest Stellar Neighbor

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:48 pm
by Cody
Rese249er wrote:
One must wonder what a lava world would look like... An OXP with one right near the sun would be cool
I'm sure someone has done a lava planet, but I cannot recall who.

A quick search using Dizzie's incredibly useful and recently stickied search plug-in gives the answer as Griff.