of those two, conditions for life were considered an outside possibility. No doubt that there are many more systems out there, but this is a rather large sample. Life may be the exception rather than the rule.
Exactly!
------------------------------ On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 10:45 AM MST Chuck Hards wrote:
Remember that all of these planet discoveries are in a very small target area:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/multimedia/images/fov-kepler-drawin...
Also they are only planets with orbital planes that cause transits of their parent stars. We can extrapolate that the total number of any particular type of planet discovered must be huge in the galaxy, even if only one or two candidates have been confirmed so-far. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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