Earth-Like Planet

[powell11]

Is there any earth like planet closer to earth than Gliese 581??

reasonably close so that humans may get there one day?

[jomifl]

no

[naomi24]

..... but we don't know what we might discover tomorrow .....

[askyourgran]

Is that the one in the Goldilocks zone, shown on the news? They say it looks promising. Why it's taken so long to find it.

[askyourgran]

^^*why has it taken so long to find it?*

[blackeyed]

one of the possibility does include 'titan' it's not a planet but one of saturn's moons because it has got frozen (i am not so sure) ammonia or methane which in time will melt and the conditions will be very much like on earth.I dont know how close it is to earth though.

[jomifl]

It is stretching it a bit to say that titan is earthlike.

[blackeyed]

so should i say 'titan is the next place we consider living'...

[naomi24]

There are around 50 known stars within 20 light years of earth, the nearest being approximately 4 light years away. Some are known to host planetary systems, so perhaps one of these days we'll discover an earth like planet much closer.

[R1Geezer]

there are probaly 1000's but they are all too far away.

[Hopkirk]

Sure Titan, has earthlike appearances, with rivers cutting the landscape.

However the rivers are liquid methane, not water. I don't think I fancy it.

[blackeyed]

beautiful pictures EDDIE51!!