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posted by cmn32480 on Monday January 02 2017, @04:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the sorry-for-the-delay-in-our-response dept.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/12/contact-with-proxmina-centauri-b

Douglas Vakoch, the former Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, is launching the METI Initiative with one planet in mind: the recently discovered planet around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth (and thus the closest exoplanet.)

Vakoch says that METI has more than a few targets in mind, there are a few advantages to Proxima Centauri b.

"First, it's close to our solar system, keeping the time for a roundtrip exchange as short as possible," Vakoch says. "Second, some have suggested that this exoplanet is potentially habitable."


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