Planet System Similar to Ours Revealed

[SirUlli]

Scientists announced today the discovery of a fifth planet in a distant star system that that now looks like a "cousin" to our own.

Known as 55 Cancri, the sun-like star harbors the most number of planets ever discovered outside our solar system.

"We now know that our sun and its family of planets is not unusual," study team member Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley told reporters in a teleconference. "Architecturally, this new planetary system is reminiscent of ours, albeit souped-up. All the planets in this new system are more massive by factors of 5 to 10."

http://www.space.com/scienceas...1106-five-planets.html

and at NASA

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-128

Greetings from Germany
Sir Ulli

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks SirUlli for the interesting reads! :beer:

 

[Assimilator1]

Now that would be some breeding space

Thx Ulli:thumbsup:

 

[SirUlli]

here is also an interestink Link the Planet Society

http://www.planetary.org/progr...tiathome_20071108.html

SETI@home Update, November 8, 2007
by Amir Alexander

Greetings from Germany
Sir Ulli