Saturday, May 12, 2007

The Search for Spock

Sounds strange, but PlanetQuest has a lot more details. Basically, astronomers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are hoping that that in an upcoming SIM PlanetQuest mission they will be able to detect a planet in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star 40 Eridani A within the triple-star system 40 Eridani.

If you're wondering what this has to do with Vulcan, 40 Eridani A is the star around which the planet in Star Trek folklore. Live long and propser.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

stumbled across a fun Spock voicemail greeting the other day @ MySpace.com/YouMail
What's actually really cool about it is not everyone hears it - just my close friends