PLUTO, Our Future Home

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Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 00:21:50 MDT

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    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_habitable_030520.html

    <<ELIZABETH LAGANA/SPACE.com

    It might be a few billion years before an ad like this appears in your local
    paper, but it could show up for good reason.

    According to a new computer model designed to understand how the conditions
    for life might arise in unlikely places, humble Pluto and its surroundings
    will have warmed to downright pleasant temperatures long after the Earth has
    been consumed by an expanding, dying Sun.

    "It's Miami Beach for millions of years, potentially longer," Alan Stern, a
    planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, says of Pluto's
    future.

    Stern used existing data on the outer solar system, added in the latest
    theoretical expectations for the Sun's evolution, and analyzed it all from a
    biological perspective. His results will be published in the journal
    Astrobiology.>>

        
        

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