Comments on: New Super-Earth: Hot, Watery, and Nearby http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: pug puppies for sale http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/#comment-14384 pug puppies for sale Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:29:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=7781#comment-14384 You made some great stuff there. I did a searching on the content and found the majority of people may agree with your blog. You made some great stuff there. I did a searching on the content and found the majority of people may agree with your blog.

]]> By: anna http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/#comment-14383 anna Mon, 17 May 2010 09:45:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=7781#comment-14383 i think we should call it one of these names at least- Alina,planet 51,therdropia,galypso or even, sauresdor also do you think we can actually can live there it would cost to much to send people over there and is there any living thing already on that planet like humans . i think we should call it one of these names at least- Alina,planet 51,therdropia,galypso or even, sauresdor also do you think we can actually can live there it would cost to much to send people over there and is there any living thing already on that planet like humans .

]]> By: Dave in Calif http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/#comment-14382 Dave in Calif Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:35:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=7781#comment-14382 Bill not just blame us, but blame Bush. Bill not just blame us, but blame Bush.

]]> By: Bill J http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/#comment-14381 Bill J Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:48:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=7781#comment-14381 How long will it be before Al Gore blames us for the conditions on GJ1214 b?? How long will it be before Al Gore blames us for the conditions on GJ1214 b??

]]> By: StevoR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/#comment-14380 StevoR Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:40:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=7781#comment-14380 Awesome news! 8) You beat the Bad Astronomer to it here! ;-) Its already on Wikipedia too see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GJ_1214_b Complete with a comparison with Earth & Neptune & full spectral class of the host star as an M4.5 V red dwarf. It may well be more like a Hot Neptune than a SuperEarth but this is still a marvellous discovery and hopefully the first of many. :-) It could use a proper name though - might I suggest 'Oceanus' or 'Poseidon' after the greek mythological gods? Or at least the name /nickname 'Calypso' after the nymph who imprisoned legendary sailor & King of Ithaca Odysseus and the <i>"pirates of the caribbean" </i>sea goddess? An association with hot imprisoned waters seems apt here somehow! ;-) Awesome news! 8)

You beat the Bad Astronomer to it here! ;-)

Its already on Wikipedia too see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GJ_1214_b

Complete with a comparison with Earth & Neptune & full spectral class of the host star as an M4.5 V red dwarf.

It may well be more like a Hot Neptune than a SuperEarth but this is still a marvellous discovery and hopefully the first of many. :-)

It could use a proper name though – might I suggest ‘Oceanus’ or ‘Poseidon’ after the greek mythological gods? Or at least the name /nickname ‘Calypso’ after the nymph who imprisoned legendary sailor & King of Ithaca Odysseus and the “pirates of the caribbean” sea goddess? An association with hot imprisoned waters seems apt here somehow! ;-)

]]> By: Arik Rice http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/#comment-14379 Arik Rice Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:07:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=7781#comment-14379 Just because it's hot doesn't mean its uninhabitable. On Earth, there are undersea vents which get hotter that are just teeming with life. If life exists there, it would probably be well adapted to swim in 400-degree oceans (and actually it may be cooler than than, depending on the planet's albedo). Just because it’s hot doesn’t mean its uninhabitable. On Earth, there are undersea vents which get hotter that are just teeming with life. If life exists there, it would probably be well adapted to swim in 400-degree oceans (and actually it may be cooler than than, depending on the planet’s albedo).

]]> By: rabidmob http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/#comment-14378 rabidmob Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:43:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=7781#comment-14378 Any calculations as to how fast the planet is moving? Any calculations as to how fast the planet is moving?

]]> By: YouRang http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/17/new-super-earth-hot-watery-and-nearby/#comment-14377 YouRang Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:15:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=7781#comment-14377 The planet talks!? It might bear the name GJ... but it certain cannot bare anything. The planet talks!? It might bear the name GJ… but it certain cannot bare anything.

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