Tuesday, June 24, 2008
By Jeanna Bryner
Planet hunters say it's just a matter of time before they lasso Earth's twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy.
Momentum is building: Just last week, astronomers announced they had discovered three super-Earths — worlds more massive than ours but small enough to most likely be rocky — orbiting a single star. And dozens of other worlds suspected of having masses in that same range were found around other stars.
"Being able to find three Earth-mass planets around a single star really makes the point that not only may many stars have one Earth, but they may very well have a couple of Earths," said Alan Boss, a planet formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.
Please read the rest of this fascinating story at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370843,00.html
Do You Trust Barak Obama to pick your Doctor? If not vote John McCain for President!
Disagree or Agree feel free to add your own comments.
Please send any feedback to UnkHiram@gmail.com
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment