What were you doing September 8, 1966? If you were at least eight years old at the time, there's a decent chance you were watching the first episode of Star Trek.
It seems scarily coincidental that mere days after the 45th Anniversary of Star Trek's first showing I should find myself reading about HD 85512 b - a planet that has been categorized as a super-earth.
It seems HD 85512 b lies 36 light years away in the constellation Vela. -- I can hear that sentence slipping out of the mouth of either Captain Kirk or Captain Picard. The only words missing are set a course and engage.
When I read that astronomers consider HD 85512 b to be relatively close to our own Earth, I did some investigating.
It would take a little over 76,000 earth years for a NASA space shuttle to travel 1 light year. Making HD 85512 b nearly 3 million earth years away. Mr. Scott really needs to get those warp engines on line.
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