Correct me if I'm wrong, but since planets form from a circumstellar disk, all the planets around a star are going to orbit in the same plane. So if Kepler finds one planet eclipsing its parent star, then all the planets around that star are likely to be in an eclipsing orbit, meaning Kepler will find all of the star's planets that are within its detection threshold.
It is well known that when learning a new dance step, it is much easier to keep the room in the same orientation when rehearsing it. One gets particularly confused trying the step facing another direction before the step begins to be committed to muscle memory. Dancers call it "room memory".
The moon and the earth's oceans are coupled, so that as the earth loses rotational angular momentum through tidal drag, the moon gains orbital angular momentum: it is slowly getting farther away. When the oceans first formed, the tides were something like 60 meters high and high tide came every couple of hours.
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I suppose distance matters as well - a slight tilt to even exactly co-planar orbits and the planets orbiting farther out might be missed as well.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but since planets form from a circumstellar disk, all the planets around a star are going to orbit in the same plane. So if Kepler finds one planet eclipsing its parent star, then all the planets around that star are likely to be in an eclipsing orbit, meaning Kepler will find all of the star's planets that are within its detection threshold.
It is well known that when learning a new dance step, it is much easier to keep the room in the same orientation when rehearsing it. One gets particularly confused trying the step facing another direction before the step begins to be committed to muscle memory. Dancers call it "room memory".
The moon and the earth's oceans are coupled, so that as the earth loses rotational angular momentum through tidal drag, the moon gains orbital angular momentum: it is slowly getting farther away. When the oceans first formed, the tides were something like 60 meters high and high tide came every couple of hours.
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