Astronomers discover new planets, 3 are habitable

[American Patriot]

Time to pack up the Libs and send them to a new home:



Astronomers discover new planets, 3 are habitable
Published June 25, 2013
FoxNews.com



Artist’s conception of the seven planets possibly found orbiting Gliese 667C. Three of them (c, f and e) orbit within the habitable zone of the star. (Rene Heller/Carnegie Institute for Science)

Astronomers discovered a solar system packed of planets, three of which are habitable, using new observations and existing data of the Gliese 667C star. The star is orbited between five and seven planets and is part of a triple star system known as Gliese 667.

"We identified three strong signals in the star before, but it was possible that smaller planets were hidden in the data" said Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Göttingen who led the study. "We reexamined the existing data, added some new observations, and applied two different data analysis methods especially designed to deal with multi-planet signal detection. Both methods yielded the same answer: there are five very secure signals and up to seven low-mass planets in short-period orbits around the star."

The Gliese 667 solar system is strikingly similar to ours and the three planets identified as habitable are confirmed to be super-Earths: planets that have more mass than Earth but less mass than larger planets like Uranus and Neptune.

"This is the first time that three such planets have been spotted orbiting in this zone in the same system," astronomer Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institute for Science who participated in the study said.

Similar systems have been found before and are very common in the Milky Way, however, most of these systems are built around Sun-like stars and are too hot to be habitable.

The Gliese 667C system is the first example of a system that contains multiple habitable planets surrounding a low-mass star.

The discovery of more systems like Gliese 667C could mean that the amount of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy are more numerous than believed.

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[Ryan Ruck]

Time to pack up the Libs and send them to a new home:

Why would we want to go polluting the galaxy? Extraterrestrials would surely hate us for sending them a plague like that.

I'd settle for sending them to the Sun instead.

[American Patriot]

Better idea!

[Ryan Ruck]

And the best part is that we can accomplish that goal right now!

[American Patriot]

This is true. But, it costs a LOT to send even one pound into space.

How much do you think they all weigh? LOL

[American Patriot]

By my calculations there are 22,500,000,000 lbs of useless human flesh in the United States.

It costs $10,416 to put 1 pound into space on the space shuttle, and it's obsolete now.

But if we still HAD shuttles.... it would cost $234,360,000,000,000

We're gonna need some help.

LOL

[Malsua]

It costs $10,416 to put 1 pound into space on the space shuttle,

I can do it cheaper.

Build a giant dish, pack as many liberals as you can on it and light some nukes under it. Most of 'em will get to space. I bet we could do a billion pounds at $1/lb.

[Ryan Ruck]

[American Patriot]

hahahahahahaha