[meteorite-list] Subject: Re: Habital Planet Discovery Announcement

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:39:09 -0500
Message-ID: <A1DFB5EAF0E141FC83AD6717C28D53DC_at_ATARIENGINE2>

Not to doubt the scientific trustworthiness of
the Daily Mail, but they state that the light pulse
was seen December, 2008, "long before it was
announced that the star Gliese 581 has habitable
planets in orbit around it."

But Gliese 581 c, the first low mass extrasolar
planet found to be near its star's habitable zone,
was discovered in April 2007, and Gliese 581 b,
approximately Neptune-sized and the first planet
detected around Gliese 581, was discovered in
August 2005.

Discovered at the same time as Gliese 581 c, a third
planet, Gliese 581 d, has a mass of roughly 7 Earths,
or half a Uranus, and an orbit of 66.8 Earth days. It
orbits just within the outer limit of the habitable zone.

The fourth planet, Gliese 581 e, was announced on
21 April 2009. This planet, at an estimated minimum
mass of 1.9 Earths, is currently the lowest mass exoplanet
identified around a "normal star." The more distant
Gliese 581 f was found at the same time.

Gliese 581 was much in the news by December, 2008.
It was known that there were low-mass planets and that
there were planets in the habitable zone. The BEBO
message had been "sent" just two months before, in
October, 2008.

It is certainly not true that the pulse was "long before it was
announced that the star Gliese 581 has habitable planets
in orbit around it." It was well known.

Unrepeated signals don't count. Basic rule of SETI.


Sterling K. Webb
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> Listees,
>
> And now we have this to contemplate.
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1316538/Gliese-581g-mystery-Scientist-spotted-mysterious-pulse-light-direction-newEarth-planet-year.html
>
> Best to all,
>
> Count Deiro
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