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Cherskiy · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: Most planets have two suns

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6506081.stm

....if this latest report from NASA is anything to go by. Most of the exo-solar planet hunting is still theoretical, since the scientists are going by dust discs - if the planets exist, they're still far too small to be seen through the telescopes our technology can produce at present.
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gfloyd · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Most planets have two suns

Cherskiy · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject:

Given the numbers of stars - think of the biggest number you can, then double it, and you'll still be nowhere near(!) - I think the numbers of Earth-like planets will be (forgive the pun) astronomical.

It's just the distances involved that curtail any exploration at present. New Horizons will take nine years to reach Pluto.
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject:

Jupiter - the sun that failed - Carl Sagan(I think)
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gfloyd · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject:

That was the sub-plot in 2010
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Cherskiy · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:52 am Post subject:

And there's still talk of finding 'Nemesis' (supposedly the Sun's extremely faint brown dwarf companion star) somewhere out beyond the Oort Cloud, maybe anything up to a third of the way out towards Alpha Centauri.
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