| Welcome to The Gang of Five | The Land Before Time. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| Two interesting scientific findings | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 12 2015, 11:06:53 PM (139 Views) | |
| rhombus | Nov 12 2015, 11:06:53 PM Post #1 |
|
The Friendly Parallelogram
![]()
|
There have been two rather interesting developments concerning Earth and Space science in the last few days. First, a study published by the journal Science indicates that much of Earth's water probably came from the proto-planetary disk that the planet formed from as opposed to direct comet and asteroid impacts. That is not to say that such impacts did not play a role in Earth acquiring its current proportion of water, they most certainly did; but it appears that the significance of such impacts in providing such water may not be as great as first thought. Secondly, scientists have found a nearby super-Earth planet that will be close enough for the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate its atmosphere when it is launched in 2018. The planet is too hot for life as we know it to survive there (no liquid water on the surface) but nonetheless it will be amazing to be able to analyze the atmosphere of a planet around another star. |
![]() |
|
| Kor | Nov 13 2015, 01:24:25 AM Post #2 |
![]()
|
I read about this, the exo planet I read about this morning. Interesting news. If I recall correctly it orbits a dwarf star. |
![]() |
|
| bestariana1girl | Nov 13 2015, 03:42:53 PM Post #3 |
![]()
bestariana1girl
|
I'd like to see this planet
|
![]() |
|
| vonboy | Nov 13 2015, 07:32:19 PM Post #4 |
|
The IT team was fired... Fire Grilled
|
Very interesting finds. ![]() I'd like to see more about that exoplanet, too. It's 39 light-years away, apparently. |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · The Fridge · Next Topic » |









7:53 PM Jul 10