From: Brett Paatsch (paatschb@optusnet.com.au)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 01:21:26 MDT
"Our Future Home"? I guess it would be a "renovators challenge".
Now for a real ignorant question. Would an "expanding, dying
Sun" effect Pluto's orbit and gravity significantly?
- Brett Paatsch
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From: Spudboy100@aol.com
To: extropians@extropy.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: PLUTO, Our Future Home
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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