From: Twirlip of Greymist (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 07 1996 - 16:11:56 MST
On Nov 6, 5:05pm, Michael Lorrey wrote:
} discovering. It turns out that planets seem to be a natural phenomenon
} of just about every sun-like star, though less likely with binary
What sort of planets? Big super-Jovians, which are the ones we can
detect, as far as I know? Given how common binaries are, the planets
we've been seeing strike me as possibly just being results of the normal
stellar genesis being a bit imbalanced. It doesn't tell us anything
about having a terrestrial planet in the biozone.
Merry part,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix
Dance, dance, wherever you may be,
For I am the Lord of the Dance said he,
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