Proxima Centauri b

[whulorigan]

Just this month, the nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, was discovered to have an Earth-mass exoplanet in its habitable zone, Proxima Centauri b, or "Proxima b".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b

 

[aramis]

Just this month, the nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, was discovered to have an Earth-mass exoplanet in its habitable zone, Proxima Centauri b, or "Proxima b".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b

Info was leaked in July. Was published this month.

 

[lostscout5]

Pretty cool stuff!

 

[McPerth]

Shame Tirane was set in Alpha Centauri A in 2300 AD...

Otherwise, we could lobby for it to keep the name .

 

[Spinward Scout]

According to a woman who claims to have been "abducted by aliens", the world in the Proxima Centauri system is called Meton.

o:

 

[kilemall]

I have a habitable world there in the TC universe-

Leavenworth.

 

[Reynard]

In a Traveller Universe, the world would be 'habitable' but in Our Reality Proxima Centauri is a flare star and those are death to life bearing worlds. Reality sucks. Still, flare stars are rare in Sol's locality with P centauri, Wolf 359 and Bernard's Star (yes, the famous vilani prospecting base) so they become tourist attractions for the other colony worlds.

 

[kilemall]

In a Traveller Universe, the world would be 'habitable' but in Our Reality Proxima Centauri is a flare star and those are death to life bearing worlds. Reality sucks. Still, flare stars are rare in Sol's locality with P centauri, Wolf 359 and Bernard's Star (yes, the famous vilani prospecting base) so they become tourist attractions for the other colony worlds.

I'm honoring the flare star business IMTU as I am converting the Imperium map and cross-referencing with their real stars, then rolling on RTT Worldgen.

Big part of why I was defining the solar flare/deflector interaction.

and why of course it's a military/prison planet.

 

[JimMarn]

According to a woman who claims to have been "abducted by aliens", the world in the Proxima Centauri system is called Meton.

o:

The first time I read about these, I was a kid reading comic books, I imagined that the people doing this were cosmic practical jokers and had convinced them they were taken somewhere, and weren't. But I couldn't figure out how... then Star Trek showed the virtual reality, holo deck, rooms, and I realized that had the potential for it.