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Earth and others lose status as Goldilocks worlds
- gus_massa 14y agoLinkbait! 1) It looks like a astronomers group proposed a new definition, not that the IAU made an official statement. 2) From the research article: " According to the new model, the [...] limits for our Solar System are at 0.99 AU and 1.70 AU, respectively, suggesting that the present Earth lies near the inner edge." So the Earth is inside the Goldilocks zone even with this definition. Someone must be a real moron (or have very good scientific bases and explanations of the exception) to propose a definition of habitable zone that excludes the only one known example of an habited planet.