A second earth?

[ThinkerX]

Maybe. Orbiting Proxima Centauri in the Alpha Centauri system. Supposedly right size, right distance from the primary...but as to the rest...well, maybe.

https://blog.sci-nature.com/2022/08/its ... d-l-8cNUfY

Proxima b, as has been baptized, has very ‘promising characteristics’: it is probably rocky, slightly more massive than our own planet and is located in the region around its star that would allow liquid water on its surface to exist.

Researchers have discovered a planet located in the Proxima Centauri system, one of the closest stars to Earth which they believe harbors liquid water and potentially alien life.

[GCoyote]

Well we won't know until we can get a better look into some of these candidate systems. With so many new instruments coming on line our knowledge base should only get better.

[ThinkerX]

Well we won't know until we can get a better look into some of these candidate systems. With so many new instruments coming on line our knowledge base should only get better.

The one I find most intriguing - if it exists - is PXP-4 in the Tau Ceti system. Predicted to be earth sized, orbiting dead center in that star's habitable zone. The tech, as of a couple years ago, was *almost* good enough to confirm that one.

That said, 'PXP-4' sounds like something out of a Pixar movie...which Fritz might find more palatable than whatever designation the maybe world is given by a certain astronomical organization...