Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to No Joke

Extrasolar planet image

Interesting. If the star really is only one million years old and has already formed a J sized planet out at 100AU, it sets some falsifyable constraints on several of the currently proposed planetary formation models. Man, this makes me really hungry for Kepler mission data. Currently scheduled for an Oct '07 launch it would take about 3 years of repeated observations to confirm any "Earth" type planets.

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