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How Common are Earths? How Common are Jupiters?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2017
Abstract
Among the billions of planetary systems that fill the Universe, we would like to know how ours fits in. Exoplanet data can already be used to address the question: How common are Jupiters? Here we discuss a simple analysis of recent exoplanet data indicating that Jupiter is a typical massive planet rather than an outlier. A more difficult question to address is: How common are Earths? However, much indirect evidence suggests that wet rocky planets are common.
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- Extrasolar Planets
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 41 - 44
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004
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