Gliese 581 G New Planet – Goldilocks
Gliese 581 G New Planet – Goldilocks – Scientists have discovered a new planet Gliese 581 G that might be just right to support life. It is not known if life currently exists on the planet, but from the outside it appears to have a similar concentration of both land and liquid water to Earth.
Unfortunately, the planet does not rotate, and instead only revolves around the nearest star. It is not too hot or not too cold in some areas of the planet, but because it does not rotate one side of the planet is always baking in the light while the other side is completely covered in darkness.
Astronomers believe that if life were to exist on the planet, it would exist along the border where the temperatures are not too extreme. Essentially, anything that lives there would always be in a sunrise or sunset, depending on whether the glass was half empty or half full.
Dubbed the “goldilocks” planet, it is believed that the planet could potentially support life, even human life, one day.Of course, astronomers have jumped the gun before and declared a planet habitable only to find out that it is not so much so.
Just because the planet could potentially support life does not mean that it would be intelligent at all. In fact, it could be limited to single cell organisms that were seen in the early days of earth. While nothing is certain at this time, the “Goldilocks” planet is our current best hope for finding life somewhere else other than here.
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Leave it alone
why leave it alone?
I am in a hurry to visit it .I WISH IT GIVES GOLD
I am in a hurry to visit it .I wish I live there!!!
interesting!
Goldilocks? Shouldn’t we call such a planet a ‘Baby Bear’ – b/c his bed and porridge were ‘just right?’
Now- let’s find a way to get there so we can f**k it up!
defontly give it a go any things better then here
I know, people here can’t even spell.
yeah!!!!!!!
i came from there and i dont want u to go there .Thats my planet !! dont screw it up!!! puck u all >:( muwhahahaha
ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh im so f-ing scared
leave it alone, but visit of course. =)
this is an incredible discovery, maybe we could learn a thing or two how to take care of our own planet. We are all about what we can get out of earth and not put anything back to replenish it. So come to think about it, maybe we should just leave that planet alone so we dont screw up anything else!!!!!
Oh can i have an avatar body too????
intresting! like the the name goldie locks
I think there are major obstacles to a life sustaining environment on the planet. With extreme heat on one side and extreme cold on the other, enormous convention currents would be set up in the atmosphere with enormous winds. As air reached the cold, dark side, it could freeze and snow out on the cold side. More air would rush in to replace it and it too would snow out. You would end up with an airless burning desert on one side and a huge glacier of frozen air and water on the other. Even if for some reason, this didn’t happen, any water that evaporated on the warm side and got transported to the cold, dark side would snow out and freeze and without any heat to evaporate or melt it, it would never thaw and never return. All the water would end up in a giant glacier on the dark side. Now if the atmosphere was thick enough (like on Titan or Venus) you could prevent the air/water from freezing out but the most likely outcome would be a runaway greenhouse effect like on Venus.
I think the most likely place to find life on a planet orbiting a red dwarf and thus tidally locked would actually been a large moon of the planet, tidally locked to that planet . As the moon orbited the planet, it would produce a day/night cycle on the different sides of the moon. You would need a fairly substantially sized moon to hold the atmosphere. The best place to look may ironically be moons orbiting gas giants within the “Goldilocks” zone of red dwarf stars. Avatar may not be so far-fetched.
Don’t listen to the media. They were lied to. the orbital period 402 days. The planet rotation peroid is 83 hours.
I think Brian Lumley wrote about this world in his Necoscope books, that was in 1980….
we can call it a little girl planet