New Earth like Planet Discovered Gliese 581c

For the first time in history, an Earth-like planet has been discovered orbiting a distant star. The planet resides in the star’s “Goldilocks Zone” where liquid water --and life could occur. The team of Swiss, French and Portuguese astronomers used the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6 m telescope to make this incredible discovery.

At only one and a half times the radius of Earth, Gliese 581 C is the third and smallest planet to be discovered orbiting a Red Dwarf star located 20.5 light years away in the constellation Libra and the first one to approach the Earth’s size

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1. Mervin says:

   August 11, 2009 at 8:45 pm

   has anybody read the book: ‘The Lost Book of Enki’ by Sachin
   Sacheria? Sachin is to be believed the biggest private
   collector of ancient Sumerian clay tablets, some dating back
   18′ooo BC, which tells tales of an advanced race that dwelled on this
   planet long before humanity existed…

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