Real-life Vulcan discovered?

[Lapis Exilis]

Breaking from USA Today:

Star Trek fans, take heart — Mr. Spock's fabled home star, the nearby Epsilon Eridani, could harbor an Earth-like planet.
NASA astronomers today report that the triple-ringed star has an asteroid belt and a Jupiter-like giant planet in roughly the same orbits as in our own solar system. Only 850 million years old, a fifth the age of Earth's sun, Epsilon Eridani resembles a younger twin to our solar system. About 62 trillion miles away, it is the closest known solar system.

With a Jupiter-like planet and asteroid belt in about the same place as in the Solar system, the likelihood of Epsilon Eridani harboring a habitable planet just went up. Previously the gas giant was thought to follow a looping path, but if that were true it would have destroyed the asteroid belt, so its path must be circular.

Not that I suspect Vulcans are actually on that planet, but it's kinda cool that the Eridani star system might harbor life.

 

[Lindley]

Unfortunately, Epsilon 3 is almost entirely devoid of life. Just under a dozen inhabitants....

 

[Darth Picardous]

Epsilon Eridani? I though Vulcan was the Omicron 2 Eridani system.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

But now I ask of you: is this canon?

(seriously though, cool)

 

[Hardin]

<justin long galaxy quest mode>I knew it! I knew it!</justin long galaxy quest mode>

 

[ChristopherPike]

So what does this news really mean?

For starters, the optical of Vulcan in the original '79 TMP was more scientifically accurate...

 

[Alidar Jarok]

There's another thread discussing this, so I'll redirect you there

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=71841