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Astronomers have found a super-earth exoplanet 37 light years away from our solar system Photograph: Anonymous/AP
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Despite the fact that we theoretically have the capabilities to detect earth sized planets in their Goldie-locks zones we have thus at best been able to verify only down to the super-earth size.
If the Earth is Rare, We May Not Hear from ET | Universe Today 2010
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Based on the recent discovery of a super-earth around a red dwarf star 9,000 light-years away, the research team calculated that there are probably 3 times as many of these planets than the larger gas giants.
Archive 2006-03-01 Mac 2006
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However, on a "super-earth" planet that's a name I don't like, they only mean 'larger than earth' the gravity would be much greater.
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It is in the constellation of Vela and classed as a "super-earth" as it is much larger than our planet - around 3.6 times the Earth's mass - and is constantly the right distance from its main star to be neither too cold nor too hot.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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They define a "water planet" as any super-earth whose mass is more than 10% water, whose core is made of silicates or metals, and whose surface layer is lacking in significant amounts of gas.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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They define a "water planet" as any super-earth whose mass is more than 10% water, whose core is made of silicates or metals, and whose surface layer is lacking in significant amounts of gas.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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They define a "water planet" as any super-earth whose mass is more than 10% water, whose core is made of silicates or metals, and whose surface layer is lacking in significant amounts of gas.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Gliese 581-d is a super-earth about a red dwarf star, likely habitable, but it will require a greenhouse effect or internal heat generation to make it be so, and it requires a substantially thick atmosphere currently unknown to even make liquid water exist.
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WFIRST, and ramp up Cosmic Visions for a super-earth detector and be going before NASA gets to any sort of TPF concept.
uselessness commented on the word super-earth
Words like this perpetuate the stereotype that astronomers are uncreative comic-book-reading nerds.
May 1, 2007