NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
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Re: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
#2As of now, the content linked says nothing more than the PR announcement from yesterday -- so either the title is misleading, or the OP comes from the future.
(I'm aware he might have other sources for the title, but it's still misleading)
Re: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
#3As of now, the content linked says nothing more than the PR announcement from yesterday -- so either the title is misleading, or the OP comes from the future. (I'm aware he might have other sources for the title, but it's still misleading)
I think the announcement is live at noon today (EST).
Re: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
#4How far away, tho I suppose not like it matters now that getting even into orbit is harder than before.
Re: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
#5As of now, the content linked says nothing more than the PR announcement from yesterday -- so either the title is misleading, or the OP comes from the future. (I'm aware he might have other sources for the title, but it's still misleading)
I think the announcement is live at noon today (EST).
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Re: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
#6As of now, the content linked says nothing more than the PR announcement from yesterday -- so either the title is misleading, or the OP comes from the future. (I'm aware he might have other sources for the title, but it's still misleading)
I think the announcement is live at noon today (EST).
For those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/...
Re: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
#7What's an "earth similarity index"? Is there a definition somewhere?
Re: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
#8What's an "earth similarity index"? Is there a definition somewhere?
"The Earth Similarity Index, ESI or "easy scale" is a measure of how physically similar a planetary-mass object is to Earth. It is a scale from zero to one, with Earth having a value of one."
Mars is at 0.697, for reference.
Re: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
#9What's an "earth similarity index"? Is there a definition somewhere?
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