News report (if confirmed):
a habitable planet, around a red dwarf, which just happens to be the closest star to us . . .
http://www.universetoday.com/130276/ear ... iscovered/
PS - and SFF doesn't allow hab planets around red-dwarves table W6.04
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) plans on making the discovery, which has thus far been kept secret, public by the end of August.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/reports ... -neighbor/In October 2012, to widespread fanfare, the ESO announced the existence of Alpha Centauri Bb, which would have set a record for the closest planet outside the Solar System. Sadly, however, subsequent evidence led to the claim’s retraction. Understandably, this may have made the ESO particularly anxious to protect their high reputation by not making another unsubstantiated claim on a closely related topic. If the report is indeed true, the delay could represent a desire to triple-check the findings for errors before making an announcement.
Even Der Spiegel’s anonymous source said: “We were working at the limit of technically feasible measurement.”
aramis wrote:There are several potential scenarios that should allow a habitable world at tidelocking range.
1) "Eyeball Earths" - tidelocked, but atmosphere circulates heat from the front to warm the back.
2) resonance lock - rotations and revolutions in a stable resonance lock.
3) tidelocked to a massive moon.
It's worth noting that Proxima B is at 0.05 AU. Mercury orbits Sol at about 0.3 AU... 6x as far, for a star that's 1/8 the mass. Mercury is in resonance but not actually tidelocked. Proxima B might not actually be tidelocked...
Note that the actual data is "Minimum mass 1.3 Earths"... maximum is suggested to be around 3 on several different vids; this is due to estimated inclination issues. That would make it possible to be potentially an ST and T or T & T...
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