new kepler 22b planet

[the barnacle]

A new planet detected orbiting a star 600 light years away could have continents, oceans and life, it was revealed today.
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The planet, Kepler-22b, is about twice the size of Earth and may have a surface temperature of around 22C - similar to a warm spring day in the UK.


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[Old Git John]

Just hope Brittish Rail don't get the transport contract.

[petethedig]

Nice one John, but I wonder how long it would take to get to such a place? We all know that the world end December 21st 2012, so just making contingency plans

[JBM]

Well if we lived on planet Keppler-22b and were looking at the earth perhaps we would be saying the say thing. Jerry.

[Karv]

I spose it gives Seti something more likely to look at

[petethedig]

Wonder if you can detect there...plenty of land to go around, just hope the Roman's got there first

[Old Git John]

Wonder if you can detect there...plenty of land to go around, just hope the Roman's got there first

That would depend upon whether big ears lot get there first

[Harry UP]

Nice one John, but I wonder how long it would take to get to such a place? We all know that the world end December 21st 2012, so just making contingency plans

It would take 11,612,361 years to get there
Best get your skates on

[petethedig]

I've invented time travel, so I went and had a look and its not bad, all I need to do is go and kidnap some people from the past to get them going in making and losing stuff

[Donnydave]

Why are they looking for a place that is too far to possibly reach its one thing being able to see it, its another actually travelling there, I bet the Yanks really believe Starship Enterprise actually exists

[Puffin]

Oh!!! Dave, Dave you mean Enterprise does not exist, here is me thinking that one of the shuttles was called Enterprise? Suppose now your going to tell me Santa is just a bloke in a fat suit?

[popsandme]

apparently it takes light 600 years to travel from there to here so we are looking at the planet some 600 years ago, and visa versa, if there are any little green men on the planet and they have similar capabilities as us then they would actually be looking at earth in the reign of Henry V and most likely the Battle of Agincourt

[grandpabeard]

There thousands there waiting for the next spaceship to come here so they can claim benefits and the eu have just granted kepler 22b rights for them

[the barnacle]

apparently it takes light 600 years to travel from there to here so we are looking at the planet some 600 years ago, and visa versa, if there are any little green men on the planet and they have similar capabilities as us then they would actually be looking at earth in the reign of Henry V and most likely the Battle of Agincourt

so in theory if you were to travel faster than the sound of light you could look back and see an earlier period.

[marcsdigs]

apparently it takes light 600 years to travel from there to here so we are looking at the planet some 600 years ago, and visa versa, if there are any little green men on the planet and they have similar capabilities as us then they would actually be looking at earth in the reign of Henry V and most likely the Battle of Agincourt

Pops, its 600 light years away.
1 light year (AU, astronomical unit) = time the light travels in a vacuum from the Sun out to its farthest reaches over a period of 1 Julian year......it takes 8 minutes for the sunlight to travel to Earth. (Light takes between from 4.1 hours and 6.8 hours to travel from the Sun to Pluto depending on its orbit)
186,000 miles/per second is the speed of light. 1 AU (AU, astronomical unit)
so, 600 AU (light years) = 186,000 miles per/second x 60 (seconds)=1 minute x 60 (minutes) =1 hour x 24 (hours per day) x 365 (days /1 year) = 5,865,696,000,000 miles away which would take the average speed for a rocket in space (Voyager 2 is travelling @ 73,000 m/p/h) = Roughly 80,352,000,000 years

In astronomy, a Julian year (symbol: a) is a unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86 400 SI seconds each, totalling 31 557 600 seconds. The Julian year is the average length of the year in the Julian calendar used in Western societies in previous centuries, and for which the unit is named. Nevertheless, because a Julian year measures duration rather than designating a date, the Julian year does not correspond to years in the Julian calendar or any other calendar. Nor does it correspond to the many other ways of defining a year.

I think that's right