[ExI] new super earth

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> Hey cool, I just heard of this today.  I don’t understand why an exo
> that close by is just now discovered:*
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> *https://phys.org/news/2025-10-newly-super-earth-prime-alien.html*
> <https://phys.org/news/2025-10-newly-super-earth-prime-alien.html>
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*The star that planet orbits, GJ 251, is a red dwarf and that's not a good
place for life. Being in the habitable zone means the planet has to be so
close to its star that it's going to be gravitationally locked, one side is
always in daylight and the other always in darkness. And the convection
zone of a red dwarf goes all the way down to the core. so it has solar
flares far more often than the sun does and they are hundreds or thousands
of times as powerful. Also, some think that a super-earth would not have
continental drift, and you need that to recycle essential elements that
life needs, like phosphorus.*

*John K Clark*
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