From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 09:43:45 MDT
From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.com]
> Based on current statistics, it would thus appear that
> solar systems like ours may have a frequency of ~2 in 100
> or 1 in 50 (based on limited statistics of course).
And since our detection methods are still biased towards picking out
solar systems very different from our own (supermassive planets
orbiting very close to their suns) it seems quite plausible that the
actual frequency of sol-like systems may be higher than the current
data suggest...
mez
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