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Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« on: October 16, 2012, 04:21:08 PM »
No joke, they have just recently found one there.

http://www.space.com/18089-earth-size-alien-planet-alpha-centauri.html

It's not habitable though and would resemble a semi-molten Mercury more than anything, but this leaves open the possibility of a habitable planet there.

ALPHA CENTAURI OR BUST! YEAHOO!

Edit: ESO link: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/
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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 05:23:03 PM »
Hello α Cen Bb!

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2012, 05:56:12 PM »
I  remember that Javiera Guedes 2008 published in the Astrophysical Journal the results of simulations ( using the softwares Mercury and Systemic) which indicated that Alpha Centauri B could offer conditions to the formation of a planet with a mass similar to Earth in its orbit. After publication of the article of the discover of a planet around α Cen B in NATURE we can check if their predictions corresponded to reality:

- http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3482
- https://webhome.phys.ethz.ch/~jguedes/alphacen.html

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2012, 06:37:00 PM »
It would be awesome if both Alpha Centauri A and B have habitable planets.

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2012, 06:57:39 PM »
Yeah, but we dont have any lightrockets yet. (rockets made of light and go as fast and can carry you)

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2012, 06:08:24 AM »
The journal NATURE published today the article of the discovery of Alpha Centauri Bb. The full lecture (and download) it is available:

- http://www.slideshare.net/APODman2k/an-earthmass-planet-orbiting-a-centauri-b-14765962


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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2012, 06:16:23 AM »
Yeah, but we dont have any lightrockets yet. (rockets made of light and go as fast and can carry you)

Sorry, but I don't agree.

I believe this recent discovery is actually a cover of an old manned mission that accidentally landing on a planet of Alpha Centauri system.

A recently leaked secret video proves it:

lost in space tv episode preview 1


The true is out there !   :D :D :D

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2012, 08:08:51 AM »
Based on the little information about the orbital elements in the article of NATURE I created a simulation of orbiting Alpha Centauri Bb. The simulation file is attached.

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2012, 06:43:45 PM »
uh, isn't Alpha Centauri like 4 light years away? So how could someone
1. Have enough food.
2. Have enough fuel.
3. Live long enough.
4. Why would they make it secret.
5. Is this a joke?

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2012, 07:33:49 PM »
kol apodman, that is an old american TV show

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2012, 07:36:00 AM »
kol apodman, that is an old american TV show

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2012, 01:14:52 PM »
uh, isn't Alpha Centauri like 4 light years away? So how could someone
1. Have enough food.
2. Have enough fuel.
3. Live long enough.
4. Why would they make it secret.
5. Is this a joke?


5. Yes.

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2012, 06:32:00 PM »
what about something that converts you into tachyons that go faster than light

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2012, 08:53:52 PM »

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2012, 04:13:37 PM »
then you will scatter across the universe

Yeah, like the first diaspora of settlers from earth.

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2012, 07:26:22 AM »
BACK ON TOPIC

ok so we cant find out if there is a habitalble planet there, if we point kelper at it kepler only see's what is in the line of vision of it.

crap is it kelper or kepler?

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2012, 11:57:52 AM »
it is kepler

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2012, 02:41:22 PM »
And traveling to Alpha Centauri at a speed of about 5,000 km/s would take around 80 years.

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Re: Planet found at Alpha Centauri!!!
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2012, 04:15:50 PM »
traveling about 4e+16m/s would take a bit less than a second.