ApocaDocs: 'Super-Earth' with life-supporting climate discovered

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Posted Thu Nov 8 2012: from The Telegraph:


	'Super-Earth' with life-supporting climate discovered http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1352390778 A ''super-Earth'' that could have a life-supporting climate has been discovered in a multi-world solar system 42 light years from the Sun. The planet, which is several times more massive than the Earth, lies just the right distance from its star to allow the existence of liquid surface water. It orbits well within the star's ''habitable'' or ''Goldilocks'' zone - the region where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold to sustain life. The new world is one of six, all with masses a few times that of the Earth, believed to circle the dwarf star HD 40307 in the constellation Pictor.

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'Doc Jim says:

Thank God! We've found our spare Earth, and it's bigger!