Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet (CNN)

Well European Scientists have found the most earth like planet yet, a planet with a similar temperature as Earth which could therefore sustain liquid water and potentially life.

Unfortunately scientists are a bit useless at naming things and have called it '581 c'. In order to correct this mistake I hereby use the ancient method of naming new places that are similar to old places by naming the planet 'New Earth'.

So what do we know about 'New Earth', well a full rotation of the 'New Sun' takes just 13 days so an octogenarian will be just getting ready to go to primary school.

Gravity is a bit heavier at 1.6 times earth's gravity so people might be naturally shorter, who knows they might even be ewoks.

The red dwarf 'new sun' will be twenty times larger than our 'old sun' and the planet may not even rotate.

The scientists were very cautious about the discovery and the possibility of life on 'New Earth':

"It's a nice discovery. We still have a lot of questions."

Michael Mayor - University of Geneva Astronomer

So we may be at the start of the journey to find out whether there is life out there. What if on 'New Earth' there are astronomers looking to the stars who are also announcing the discovery of a planet orbiting a bright yellow star which is twenty times smaller than their sun. Who discovered who first, and will they be our first visitors at only 20 light years away.

Of course when we finally get round to destroying earth we now have somewhere for the escape pods to head for.

So this is the first earth like planet to be discovered but where there is one there is likely to be many so we will have to get much better at naming them.

The truth may still be out there ...