RE: Earths difficult?

From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 01:44:21 MST


From: Mike Lorrey [mailto:mlorrey@yahoo.com]
> > Indeed, this work is dominated by selection effects. Our planet
> > detection technology is best at detecting systems that have
> > supermassive planets orbiting extremely close to their
> > stars. Those
> > types of systems are inherently incompatible with earth
> > like planets.
> > This study is based on a tautology.
>
> Not neccessarily inherently incompatible. We are entirely
> unable to detect any terrestrial sized moons orbiting
> supermassive planets, a number of which orbit at distances
> within the green zone for their stars.

Good point on the moons. Either way, the recent paper under
discussion is rather bogus.

mez



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