Planetary System Similar to Sol

Posted by michael on Thursday June 13, 2002 @07:21AM 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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why so keen on earth-sized? by macsox · 2002-06-13 07:30 · Score: 5, Interesting

i don't get the thrust of the article focusing on finding earth-sized planets. is there some theory that necessitates a planet be our size to foster life? if so, why?

(here comes the (-1, Ignorant). bring it on.)

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