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proxieme
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posted July 04, 2003 12:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=624&e=3&u=/ap/20030703/ap_on_sc/france_planet_discovery

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Randall
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posted July 05, 2003 04:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message
To the top!

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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anafaery
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posted July 05, 2003 08:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for anafaery     Edit/Delete Message
i read about this yesterday. its very interesting! the thing i worry about though, is i almost feel like there is this countdown to find another inhabitable planet, and that when we have totally killed mother earth we will board some big ship and go ruin another one. not to mention the fact that if there was a mass exodus from this planet, i bet only the rich/celebrities/otherwise 'important' people would go and they would leave all the poor/otherwise vulnerable people behind on a ruined planet. i try not to think about that stuff too much or i get really depressed.

i just think we should try to clean up our own damn messes, like the mess weve made of this planet.

that was neat information though. i always thought there was *something* out there.

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Lunargirl
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posted July 06, 2003 12:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lunargirl     Edit/Delete Message
I wonder what they'll name the planet, and perhaps the star/sun itself -- I wonder about the numerology of the star's code -- HD 70642.

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PARIS - Astronomers say they have found a Jupiter-like body circling a distant star in a planetary system like ours, an intriguing discovery that raises the prospect of someday finding a planet resembling Earth.

Hugh Jones of Liverpool John Moores University said his team had discovered the system, illuminated by a star dubbed HD 70642, some 94 light years from Earth. Jones was presenting the finding at a conference at the Paris Astrophysics Institute here Thursday.


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N_wEvil
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posted July 07, 2003 10:25 AM           Edit/Delete Message
it's encouraging they have it down to jupiter-sized planets - before they could only detect borderline stars!!

After Darwin launches and the bugs are ironed out we might even see some disks resolved!!

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