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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

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As 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

#3

As 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

#5

As 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

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As 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

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What'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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index

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