'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away

Re:'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away by ptn on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @08:23PM (#68831)

I really don't want to crash this party, but has anyone taken a look at the date of the new? It isn't exactly..."new".

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Re:'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away by pg on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @09:50PM (#68870)

Oops, sure enough. I think I saw it on popurls. I've seen this happen before, where an old story makes the rounds of the news aggregators, probably getting more traffic than it did when it was first published. Dominews.

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Re:'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away by rms on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @10:09PM (#68881)

Oh... I didn't look at this date and figured this was a "new" might-be-habitable planet. I thought it was a good sign we were finding more than one... but having found just one is still pretty good.

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Re:'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away by DaniFong on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @08:51PM (#68848)

That's crazy. I used to think if anything like this happened, I'd be one of the first to be aware. I guess not. O.o

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Re:'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away by npk on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @10:12PM (#68882)

Well,

To be fair, there's a huge PR machine behind these kinds of discoveries. In other words, there's fuzz associated with a planet being an "earth analog." There will be more and more "earth like" planets discovered in the future.

I mean, we've only discovered 212 extra-solar planets so there's plenty more to find :)

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