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Old 04-06-08, 05:58 PM   #1
DeepIron
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Default One of these things is not like the other...

With apologies to Sesame Street...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7333155.stm

How does finding two large planets orbiting a star half the size of Sol qualify as a "Solar System Look-alike"?

Quote:
Dr 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.
"It looks like this may have formed in a similar way to our Solar System. And if this is the case, it looks like [our] Solar System cannot be unique in the Universe. There should be other similar systems out there which could host terrestrial planets."
Pure cr*p...
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