[Chaos-l] [CFAS] From twitter...

[Mark Montazer]

Interestingly they claim the planet is orbiting Alpha Centauri, which is
the system of 3 stars! That's got to be one crazy orbit... As it turns out
Proxima Centauri is the closest of the 3 to us, so 'nearest star besides
Sol' is not correct either.

In 1986 Asimov wrote, in Foundation and Earth, about an Earth-like planet
called Alpha orbiting Alpha Centauri A. Though the planet discussed in the
article is actually orbiting Alpha Centauri B, I'm going to go ahead and
give that one to Asimov as a prediction. He left us 21 years ago but
science is still proving him right.

Mark




On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Jon Stewart-Taylor <joncst at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Hi all.  I asked:
>
>   [...] anybody know the name of the earth-sized planet orbiting our
>> nearest star?
>>
>
>
> Lots of people figured it out right away, of course.  I was just being
> snarky, because the @Learnastronomhq people were less than precisely
> correct in both their tweet and their web page (http://fb.me/tcUwggH7).
>
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