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Planetary System Similar to Sol

Posted by michael on from the new-places-to-go-to-war-against dept.

sgtwilko writes "The BBC News site has an article about how astronomers have found several new planets including some that have a similar distribution to our own Solar System. They are finding planetary systems that are more and more like the one in which the Earth resides. It's only a matter of time until the Terrestrial Planet Finder program gets going and finds another Earth." There's another story on space.com. Update: 06/13 21:51 GMT by M : Space News and Wired have stories as well, with spiffy graphics and artists' renderings and so on.

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  1. another Earth?? by Kargan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ///It's only a matter of time until the Terrestrial Planet Finder program gets going and finds another Earth.///

    That will never, ever, ever happen. The odds against there being another planet with the delicate ecosystem of Earth is simply incalculable, literally.

    The place we live is unique among all other planets in the universe, it's time to accept that.

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