Talk:70 Virginis

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Nice artist's conception [here|http://business.fortunecity.com/soros/98/70vir.html]

Unfortunately, all of the "Goldilocks" reports are based on

old data... If you read the 1996 paper by Geoff Marcy you

will find him using a parallax of ".112 (29 light years) &

a spectral type of G4V. This is where the often quoted

surface temperature of 80 degrees Celsius is derived. However,

that star is now known to be much farther away, & a subgiant.

[Hipparchos|http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/HIPcatalogueSearch.html] gives its

parallax as ".05522 (59 light years), which makes the

new planet far too hot to ever have liquid water, unless under

an atmosphere near the critical point of water.

Too bad for science fiction!

This isn't an encyclopedia article...I'm not sure what it is. Will we even want an article titled "70 Virginis"? --LMS