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Phil Plait just posted a writeup about this: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/29/possible-earthlike-planet-found-in-the-goldilocks-zone-of

• hartror 16y ago
  His write up is far more suitable for the HN audience, has plenty of science, grains of salt and uses the very scientific word "probably" a lot (that isn't a joke).
  • BrandonM 16y ago
    His write up is far more suitable for the HN audience, has plenty of science, grains of salt and uses the very scientific word "probably" a lot (that isn't a joke). I agree. I submitted the link fully expecting that it would simply vote up someone else's submission, but apparently it hadn't been submitted yet. Now it has been: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1742200 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1742200