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Check this out: HYPERLINK "http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/10/04/planet_spa.html?category=space&gui d=20071004090030"http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/10/04/planet_spa.html?ca tegory=space&guid=20071004090030 ------------------------------------ Discovery Channel Earth-Like Planet Forming on Our Doorstep Oct. 4, 2007 Snuggled into a huge belt of warm dust, an Earth-like planet appears to be forming some 424 light-years away, scientists said Wednesday. At somewhere between 10 and 16 million years old, the planet's solar system is still in its "very young adolescence," but is at the perfect age for forming HYPERLINK "http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/04/24/earthlikeplanet_spa.html?category= space&guid=20070424164530&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000" \nEarth-like planets, said lead researcher Carey Lisse of Johns Hopkins University's HYPERLINK "http://www.jhuapl.edu/"; \nApplied Physics Laboratory. The massive dust ring surrounding one of the system's two stars is smack in the middle of the system's "habitable zone" where water could one day exist on a rocky planet. These types of dust belts rarely form around sun-like stars and the presence of an outer ice belt makes it all the more likely that water, and subsequently life, could one day reach the planet's surface. And this belt is made up of rocky compounds similar to those which form our HYPERLINK "http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/22/crust_pla.html?category=earth"; \nEarth's crust and metal sulfides similar to the material found in the Earth's core. "It's just the right stuff to be making an Earth," Lisse said in a telephone interview. "It's exciting to think that this is happening." Not that Lisse will be around to see much of it. The images captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are about 424 years old, but that's barely a blink in the eye of the young planet. It will likely be about 100 million years before the planet is fully formed and if our planet is anything to go by about a billion years before the first signs of life such as algae appear, Lisse said. The evolution of complex organisms such as dinosaurs will probably take another couple billion years if the new planet follows a pattern similar to ours, he added. ------------------------------------ Salam, Eri No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.0/1049 - Release Date: 10/4/2007 8:59 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indo-StarTrek (Indonesia Star Trek Community) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-startrek "...to boldly go where no Indonesian has gone before." ------------------------------------------------------ Website: http://www.indo-startrek.org Forum: http://www.indo-startrek.org/forum Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/isc2006 =/\= ============================================ =/\= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-startrek/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-startrek/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
