Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Plane...

2005-06-16 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest,Possibly Earth-like,Extra-Solar Plane... -- Gerald Flaherty wrote: But trying to find a nearby invisible star is a truly daunting technical problem concerning which no light

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like,Extra-Solar Plane...

2005-06-15 Thread Gerald Flaherty
: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like,Extra-Solar Plane... Hi, My example of a SuperEarth was based on taking the same

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Plane...

2005-06-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Jerry, Because of their low temperatures, these stars are brighter in the infrared than visible light. That is how they were discovered by 2MASS. The problem is determining their distance. Is this or that super-faint object near or far? Many conventional means of estimating

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Plane...

2005-06-14 Thread MexicoDoug
Hola Sterling, Your Super-Earth got me thinking about viable life forms though I'm not yet too adjusted. There certainly will be continents, though they will be floating quagmires of life and useful excreta, and will probably get quite thick. Easily enough to walk on, despite those who

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Plane...

2005-06-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, My example of a SuperEarth was based on taking the same materials (bulk composition) as the Earth is made from and just piling more of them together. We have no idea (and no way of knowing, for now) if the planetesimals of the Gliese 876 system were the same mix as the Sol