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Author: * Sokni Hvitaskald - 88 Posts on this thread out of 1,073 Posts sitewide.
Date: Jun 14, 2007 - 20:41

Planets: The Grand Tally

By Seth Shostak

Senior Astronomer, SETI

posted: 14 June 2007

06:17 am ET
A month ago, there was news that washed over astrobiologists like high tide in the Bay of Fundy: the existence of a possibly habitable planet around the nearby star Gliese 581.

It was certainly one of the most encouraging discoveries in the whole planet-hunting enterprise. And it got me thinking about the big picture. In particular, how many such worlds are still beyond our telescopic ken, sequestered in the rarefied gloom of the cosmos?,/p> Read the rest to find out how many planets!:
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/070614_seti_grandtally.html