[meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Planet Announced

2005-06-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, The Marcy Team, with 106 detections of extra-solar planets to its credit, announced today number 107, the discovery of the smallest yet detected (by about half the previous detection), It's only 7.5 (+/- 1.5) Earth masses. It orbits Gliese 876, an M-class dwarf about one-third the

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

2005-06-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Is this an all time high or an all time low? I'm replying to my own post (see below)! While I don't have the most recent edition, I dug out my copy of Planetary Engineers' Handbook (Dresden, 15th Ed., 2314 AD) to investiigate the characteristics of a SuperEarth. Here's what I found: