{"id":583,"date":"2007-04-24T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T23:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=583"},"modified":"2007-04-24T15:54:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T23:54:20","slug":"interstellar-vacation-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar Vacation Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific world is all abuzz today about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18293978\/\">annoucement<\/a> of the first discovery of an extra-solar terrestrial planet within the &#8220;habitable zone&#8221; of its star.  The planet has been inferred to orbit its sun &#8212; the star Gliese 581 &#8212; at a distance that allows for liquid water to be present on its surface.  It masses about 5 times as much as Earth, and is about 50% larger.  If the 50% refers to radius, then the gravity on the star&#8217;s surface would be around 20 meters per second squared, which is just over 2 times that on the Earth&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific world is all abuzz today about the annoucement of the first discovery of an extra-solar terrestrial planet within the &#8220;habitable zone&#8221; of its star. The planet has been inferred to orbit its sun &#8212; the star Gliese 581 &#8212; at a distance that allows for liquid water to be present on its surface. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interstellar Vacation Spot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}