Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own

Smivs writes "Astronomers from St Andrews University in the UK have discovered a planetary system which looks much like our own. Dr Martin Dominik told BBC news: 'We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period. The newfound planetary system, which orbits the star OGLE-2006-BLG-109L, is more compact than our own and is about five thousand light-years away. The OGLE planets were found using a technique called gravitational micro-lensing, in which light from the faraway planets is bent and magnified by the gravity of a foreground object, in this case a another star.'" Update: 04/08 12:26 GMT by Z : This story is talking about a subject we have already discussed.

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[MancunianMaskMan]

dupe

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[wellingtonsteve]

It is indeed. In fact the original post was "from the evil-twin dept."

Spooky!

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[LaskoVortex]

Sheesh.

The second was supposed to go to the other earth. It was an honest mistake you frigtard.

Must be life out there ('cause it ain't here)

[tekrat]

Wow, if they are finding so many solar systems like our own (2 in a 24-hr period), then there simply must be life out there...

Now if only there were INTELLIGENT life at the slashdot "offices"...

(sigh!)

(Captcha is "nothing"... hrmmmm.)