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Supersized rocky planets are out there.

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Supersized rocky planets are out there.
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RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there.
June 2, 2014 at 6:19 pm
(June 2, 2014 at 2:02 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(June 2, 2014 at 1:58 pm)Chuck Wrote: Yeah, and latest results seem to suggest mega-earths are fairly common, where as terresterial planets similar in size to earth are rare.

Is that a case of selection bias (whereby higher-mass planets are easier to spot using current detection methods)?

The Kepler space telescope was designed to be able to spot earth sized exo-planets.
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RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there. - by Heywood - June 2, 2014 at 6:19 pm
RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there. - by Chas - June 2, 2014 at 11:20 pm
RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there. - by Cato - June 2, 2014 at 2:25 pm
RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there. - by Cato - June 2, 2014 at 2:50 pm
RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there. - by Losty - June 3, 2014 at 1:33 pm
RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there. - by Chas - June 3, 2014 at 6:19 pm
RE: Supersized rocky planets are out there. - by Losty - June 4, 2014 at 3:33 am

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