Super earths have mass range from about 2 to 10 Earth. Astronomers have discovered a handful of these planets in our galaxy and missions like the Kepler space telescope, launched just this year, could help astronomers find many Earth-like planets in the years to come. Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, coined the term “Super-Earths” to reflect their mass rather than any superior qualities. Super earths could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. This finding gives hope to astrobiologists, who think we are more likely to find life on rocky planets with liquid water.
This article, written by Leslie Mullen, will describe you many aspect of the super earths, including planet mass and its influence to life, the importance of tectonic to the posibility of life, possibility that a SuperEarth could be entirely covered by water, the higher gravity on a super earth, so you might feel much heavier walking on a Super Earth, but of course, any life that evolved on a Super Earth would be adapted to the greater gravity, about super earth atmosphere that would not end up with a tenuous atmosphere like Mars, the suns of the super earths, about Super Earth’s extra mass that would give it a very stable rotation, so a moon would not be needed to help keep the planet in line.
Ultimately, this article also discuss about possibility of Superior Alien Civilizations and the answer of “Fermi Paradox” of why aliens have not contacted us.
complete article of Superior Super Earth can be downloaded here and you can read dirrectly here. (source: Astrobio.net, by Leslie Mullen)
