Exoplanet Ross 128b an Earthlike World?
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erlin has just been discovered! (For those of you who are familiar with the Elite universe….Ross 128 is the system which is host to the Merlin colony, an earth-like world which actually is a moon of the gas giant Aster in the game.) The similarity of Merlin and this discovery might be astonishing! I certainly hope the folks at Frontier are paying attention to this news item.
Artist’s conception of what the exoplanet Ross 128b might look like on the surface. (Source: CNN.com)
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