Two Unusual Older Stars Giving Birth To Second
Wave Of Planets

ScienceDaily (Jan. 15, 2008) — Hundreds of millions —
or even billions — of years after planets would have
initially formed around two unusual stars, a second
wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears
to be taking place, UCLA astronomers and colleagues
believe.

“This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions
now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets,
long, long after the stars themselves formed,” said UCLA
astronomy graduate student Carl Melis, who reported the
findings today at the American Astronomical Society
meeting in Austin, Texas.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080109173738.htm