Mon, Jun 02, 2008
Earth-sized Extrasolar Planet Detected
Posted to Current Events category
According to Stein at the Dynamics of Cats Sci Blog, there has been a report at the AAS meeting of a small planet orbiting a very small star about 3000 light years from here. The reported probable size is 3.3 Earth masses (With a range of probable size from 1.7 Earth masses to 8.2. The gravtity lensing was pretty fuzzy.).
If someone had told me when I was taking astronomy classes back in college that we would be detecting Earth-sized planets 3000 lightyears away in my lifetime, I would have thought they were nuts.