Astronomers Discover 16 to planet like Earth

planet HD 85512 b

CALIFORNIA - Astronomers find 50 new planets outside the solar system by using the HARPS planet hunters.

A total of 16 planets have sizes larger than on Earth. One of the outer solar planet is orbiting at the edge of the habitable zone where conditions could support life and home to living beings as Earth.

Learn to do with the nature of all the planets discovered by HARPS, scientists revealed 40 percent of the stars is similar to the sun. But at least there is one planet that has a lighter weight than the planet Saturunus.

"The discovery of HARPS has exceeded all expectations and includes a vast population of the planet that has a size larger than Earth and beberpa have the same kind with Neptune, all the planets in general are similar to the Sun," said Michel Mayor, Chairman of HARPS, from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

"Even this is better results that show the speed in terms of discovery of planets outside our solar system," he added.

As quoted by TG Daily, Tuesday (13/09/2011), one of the planet that has a 3.6 times greater than Earth's mass dubbed HD 85512 b. The planet is located at the edge of the habitable zone around a star that is likely to have water and almost the same as Earth. So that later may be used as human habitation in the future.

"This is the lowest mass planet discovered by radial velocity method, the planet is potentially located in the habitable zone of stars and is the second low-mass planets have been found by HARPS in the habitable zone," said Lisa Kaltenegger, an expert on the habitability of exoplanets.

According to local officials, astronomers believe they have discovered planets are more likely to live to be around stars similar to our Sun.

"In ten to twenty years, we should have a list of potentially habitable planets in the solar neighborhood. This is an important thing we should do," he added. (Tyo)

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50 New Planets Found, One Only Maybe Derelict

Asianadesun.com,WYOMING,European astronomers discovered 50 new planets in our solar system. Of that amount, 16 of whom identified planet-sized our planet.

Discovered the largest planet named after a planet HD 85512 b, measuring 3.6 times the mass of earth can be reached within 36 light years and is in the constellation Vela. The findings also stated that nearly half of luminous stars like our sun and a few more shining than the Saturn.

Like Earth planets, scientists believe there are traces of water in there, which allows no life there.

The findings presented in A planet on Extreme Solar Systems conference in Wyoming, USA. The conference was attended by about 350 experts from around the world.

These new planets discovered by a mission of The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), which is installed at the European Southern Observatory at La Silla Observatory, Chile.

'Detection of HD 85 512 b away from the boundary HARPS, and suggests the possibility of finding Earth's super (super-Earth) who allows life to exist around stars like the sun, "said University of Geneva astronomer Michel Mayor.

One team member, Lisa Kaltenegger, of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the findings mark a new era of the past life of the planet search. "We are entering an extraordinary achievement in the history of astronomy," he said.

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