Re: Looking for "New Earth" around Alpha Centauri

From: AA Institute (abdul.ahad_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 10/29/04

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    abdul.ahad@ntlworld.com (AA Institute) wrote in message

    > maximum elongation from the star New Earth would wander a total of 2.7
    > arc-seconds out and be amply within astrometric resolution limits for
    > even amateur sized telescopes!

    Correction - that's a mistake on my part...the max. angular separation
    of an Earth-like planet located in a circular orbit within the outer
    edge of the habitable zone around Alpha Cen 'A' should be: Arctan
    (1.3/272,000 AUs) = 0.986 arc-seconds, not 2.7!

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