Eerste exoplaneet in de bewoonbare zone van een ster ontdekt? (HD 69830)

[Assassinator]

helaas kan ik niet posten in het nieuwsforum, maar ik kwam dit tegen op een ander forum http://aurose.opticalgaming.com/index.php?...?showtopic=1900

kan iemand dit bevestigen met een link of ontkrachten? als dit waar is, is het een grote ontdekking! volgens mij de eerste exo-planeet in de bewoonbare zone rond een ster.

[Ger]

Je maakt me nieuwsgierig. Echter kan ik het topic niet bekijken omdat je daarvoor ingelogd moet zijn. Kun je misschien het bericht en de originele bron quoten?

[Assassinator]

(SPACE.com) -- Three medium-sized planets of roughly the same mass as Neptune have been discovered around a nearby sun-like star, scientists announced today.

The planets were discovered around HD 69830, a star slightly less massive than the sun located 41 light-years away in the constellation Puppis (the Stern), using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter La Silla telescope in Chile.

The finding, detailed in the May 18 issue of the journal Nature, marks a first for astronomers because previously discovered multi-planet solar systems besides our own contain at least one giant, Jupiter-sized planet.

"For the first time, we have discovered a planetary system composed of several Neptune-mass planets," said study team member Christophe Lovis of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland.

The setup is similar to our own solar system in many ways: The outermost planet is located just within the star's habitable zone, where temperatures are moderate enough for liquid water to form, and the system also contains an asteroid belt.

The newly discovered planets have masses of about 10, 12 and 18 times that of Earth and they zip around the star in rapid orbits of about 9, 32 and 197 days, respectively.

Based on their distances from the star, two inner worlds nearest the star are rocky planets similar to Mercury, the scientists suspect. The outermost planet is thought to have a solid core of rock and ice and is shrouded by a thick gas envelope.

Recent observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope last year revealed that HD 69830 also hosts an asteroid belt, making it the only other sun-like star known to have one.

When the asteroid belt was found, it was suspected that there might be an unseen planet that was shepherding the asteroids; it now seems that there is more than one shepherd. The researchers think the asteroid belt could lie between the two outermost planets or beyond the third planet.

The planets have not been photographed. They were found using the Doppler, or "wobble," technique, in which astronomers infer the presence of a planet by measuring the gravitational influence it exerts on its parent star. This technique was used to find most of the more than 180 planets so far discovered.

In the early years of planet hunting, the wobble technique was sensitive enough to spot only large, massive planets because they produce more significant stellar wobbles. However, the technique has since been refined to the point where lower-mass planets can now be detected.

voila

[skyguy]

Ja hier heb ik ook van gehoort. Alleen kan er op deze planeten heel moeilijk leven ontstaan door de gigantische zwaartekracht die er heerst. Wel een erg mooie ontdenkking!

[Leuke gast]

een mooie ontdekking,

wat zou de kans zijn?

[Ger]

Mooie ontdekking!

@Skyguy: Hoe groot zou die zwaartekracht zijn (in vergelijking met de aarde) en wat is hier nadelig aan voor de vorming van leven?