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Pandora could exist
Topic Started: Dec 18 2009, 09:43 AM (141 Views)
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As James Cameron's animated sci-fi movie Avatar goes on general release, astronomers point out that the movie's habitable moon called "Pandora" may exist in reality.

Although none have been found to date, "exomoons" orbiting exoplanets are sure to exist. Could an exomoon be detected? If so, could that exomoon's atmosphere be probed? Yes and yes, according to today's announcement by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Mass.

Pandora is a fictional alien world 5 light-years away from Earth orbiting an exoplanet in the system of Alpha Centauri A. As detailed in an exclusive Discovery News interview with the visionary director of Avatar, Cameron has been very careful to base his creation on science fact (unlike some movies I won't mention). The biology of Avatar's alien creatures are no doubt impressive, but what about the planetary physics? Could an exomoon be habitable... even inhabited?

"If Pandora existed, we potentially could detect it and study its atmosphere in the next decade," said CfA's Lisa Kaltenegger.


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