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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7571233" data-attributes="member: 6803337">Proxima Centauri hosts a planet of about the right size and about the right distance.&nbsp; We don't know its composition yet.&nbsp; This is the closest possible destination.Sirius probably will be a dud unless your sponsoring organization is named National Geographic, due to previous nova (Sirius B) that likely messed up any planets' orbit.Tau Ceti has a big dust cloud around it, with ripples that suggest planets in the right places.Other nifty-looking systems are much farther out.&nbsp; There seems to be a 'shell' of interesting exoplanets at distance 40 light-years.The Kepler probe was pointed in one direction only and has found exoplanets up to 33,000 light-years out.&nbsp; That will be a LONG trip.It seems to me that asteroid belts would be more interesting to the generation ship crew than landing on a planet.&nbsp; They might want to mine the resources and build landing craft, rather than carrying the gear all that way.The website SolSystem.com has known data for nearby stars and planets.&nbsp; It looks like the data has not been updated for a while but it can serve as a rough first guess of system astrography.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 7571233, member: 6803337"] Proxima Centauri hosts a planet of about the right size and about the right distance. We don't know its composition yet. This is the closest possible destination. Sirius probably will be a dud unless your sponsoring organization is named National Geographic, due to previous nova (Sirius B) that likely messed up any planets' orbit. Tau Ceti has a big dust cloud around it, with ripples that suggest planets in the right places. Other nifty-looking systems are much farther out. There seems to be a 'shell' of interesting exoplanets at distance 40 light-years. The Kepler probe was pointed in one direction only and has found exoplanets up to 33,000 light-years out. That will be a LONG trip. It seems to me that asteroid belts would be more interesting to the generation ship crew than landing on a planet. They might want to mine the resources and build landing craft, rather than carrying the gear all that way. The website SolSystem.com has known data for nearby stars and planets. It looks like the data has not been updated for a while but it can serve as a rough first guess of system astrography. [/QUOTE]

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