[Rocky Finding: Evidence of extrasolar asteroid belt
Ron Cowen
Astronomers report that they've obtained the best evidence yet for an asteroid belt beyond the solar system. Such a belt would suggest that the star Zeta Leporis, which lies just 70 light-years away, possesses not only asteroids but rocky planets like Earth.]
sciencenews.org
Update here "Such evidence by Telesco and Moerchen support the contention of astronomers that planets are forming around stars. This belief it held because asteroids result after planets are formed. Much like the creation of our solar system, asteroids were left behind after our planets formed."
Also: astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov
Along with gas giant exoplanets, this is also big news and maybe more so in the search of a rocky planets/exoearths.
Space/Science » in reply to There's no PROOF for their claim.
re: There's no PROOF for their claim. - Of course, not for a rocky 'planet' yet, but...
The whole thread (49 posts)
- Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky Planets
- There's no PROOF for their claim. (n/t)
- Translation: Very good news for SETI weenies.
- I was never too worried about it
- How about admitting: "We don't know"...and search from there
- re: I was never too worried about it
- colonization's always been a one-way trip
- It's obvious you don't believe space aliens will be Democrats. (n/t)
- "Intelligence"
- Fermi Shmermi
- It is just nice...
- I was never too worried about it