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Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000
astroengine writes "The first 1,000 exoplanets to be confirmed have been added to the Europe-based Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. For the last few weeks, astronomers (and the science media) have been waiting with bated breath as the confirmed exoplanet count tallied closer and closer to the 1,000 mark. Then, with the help of the Super Wide Angle Search for Planets (SuperWASP) collaboration, the number jumped from 999 to 1,010 overnight. All of the 11 worlds are classified as 'hot-Jupiters' with orbital periods between 1 day and 9 days."
To say the the count "peaks" suggests to me that the count has reached as high as it will go... which is nonsense!
No, not really. "Reaches", "Tops", "Exceeds", but not "Peaks", not unless the program is now ending and this is the final tally (which it isn't and it's not.)
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
than it was a thousand years ago.
There were people on every "corner" of the globe a thousand years ago. I assume that you prefer your history of a European imperialistic bent?