Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene January - February 2016 vol.11 no.1 | Page 38

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EAWAG course – Municipal Solid Waste
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What does this mean?
In addition to Kepler-186f, there are 4 other planets that
orbit a nearby star within the Kepler-186f system. What
this means is that if the nearby star to this planet is similar
to our Sun, then the probability of life on this planet
exponentially rises.
“We know of just one planet where life exists – Earth. When
we search for life outside our solar system we focus on finding
planets with characteristics that mimic that of Earth,” said
Elisa Quintana, research scientist at the SETI Institute at
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and
lead author of the paper published today in the journal
Science. “Finding a habitable zone planet comparable to
Earth in size is a major step forward.”
China student executed for deadly poisoning of
water dispenser

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Scientists Discover Another Earth!
Gregg Prescott, M.S. NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope
recently discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby
star within the habitable zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f
is approximately 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus
constellation.

Lin Sinhao in court at sentensing

A Chinese medical student who murdered his roommate at
a prestigious Shanghai university by poisoning a drinking
water dispenser was executedon December 11, the official
Xinhua news agency reported.
Lin Sinhao was convicted by a Shanghai court of
murdering fellow student Huang Yang “out of spite”
by spiking a water dispenser with the toxic chemical
N-Nitrosodimethylamine in April 2013.
He was put to death after