Kapteyn b - Oldest known planet that might support life discovered

[rdunk]

This is another interesting piece of news today, about a planet that supposedly has been around for 11.5 billion years and is only 13 light years away from Earth. This find should simply highlight to us that we still know so little about even our closest neighboring star planetary systems, even just a few light years away!

Space.com   By Mike Wall   Published June 05, 2014

Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the oldest known alien world that could be capable of supporting life, and it's just a stone's throw away from Earth.

The newfound exoplanet candidate Kapteyn b, which lies a mere 13 light-years away, is about 11.5 billion years old, scientists say. That makes it 2.5 times older than Earth, and just 2 billion years or so younger than the universe itself, which burst into existence with the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.

"It does make you wonder what kind of life could have evolved on those planets over such a long time," study lead author Guillem Anglada-Escude, of Queen Mary University of London, said in a statement.


More: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/06/05/found-oldest-known-alien-planet-that-might-support-life/

[Amaterasu]

HOW did the "scientists" determine the AGE of a planet - a mere speck of light?  And I note They list the age of the universe with great authority - and the big bang, too, for that matter.

Heh.