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Alpha Centauri planets

Hi Guys

Here's an interesting planet formation simulation in Alpha Centauri A's system...

http://au.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209118

...several terrestrial sized planets form in stable orbits from moon-mased planetary embryos, which makes terrestrial formation in binary systems seem reasonably likely in general.

Alpha is still our best first port-of-call.

Adam

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