Hi RAZ,
Care to comment on why you think this book has any real value?
Since you probably won't be getting a reply on this, let me supply a generic answer.
It validates their
belief, but you'll never see them admit it. Science escapes them.
Now, on to your original post:
It orbits its star every 13 days.
It circles its star 14 times closer than the Earth orbits the sun.
Gravity is 1.6 times as strong as the Earth's -- so a 150-pound person would feel like 240 pounds on 581 C.
Astronomers previously found a Neptune-sized planet circling the star Gliese 581, as well as evidence of a third planet about eight times the mass of Earth.
I wonder, just as an exercise of the imagination and if there is indeed any kind of life on the planet, what kind of creatures might live in the dim, red light of a red dwarf. Doesn't a star enter a red dwarf stage near the end of its billions-of-years life? All those eons in which to evolve. An interesting thought.
BTW, if you get a chance, please contact me at my old Netscape email address (don't forget the numbers 0165). I tried to send one to your old address, but it got sent back.
Take care.