42 Worlds in 32 Days

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 2, 2002 @11:36AM from the beats-old-phineas-soundly dept.

Odie writes: "Since the first discovery of a planet around another star in 1995, some 60+ planetary systems have been discovered. That's about one every two month, most of them uninhabitable Jupiter-sized heavyweights. Not much statistics to put in the Drake equation. Recently though, the OGLE team has come up with more than 42 new candidates. Nice in itself, but what is spectacular is that they spent only 32 days finding them! At that rate COROT should soon find plenty of worlds to explore for you budding Starfleet sailors! "

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42! by diggem · 2002-03-02 12:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

... so the answer really IS 42 eh?

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The perfect number by Asparfame · 2002-03-02 13:07 · Score: 1, Redundant

42... I bet they stopped once they got there intentionally as an allusion to the late great Adams.

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Had to be said by theNeophile · 2002-03-02 13:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

What do you get when you multiply six by nine?