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To: TigersEye

Thanks, missed that. The 170K number is a bit disingenuous as it counts binaries as two systems. And if you want to pretend to count M dwarfs...


95 posted on 07/15/2014 1:16:01 PM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

The source wasn’t trying to answer the question of how many stable solar systems with planets there are but it was one of the few sites I could find in a simple search that had some answer as to how many stars are within 100 lys of earth. It’s clearly a lot less than “millions.”


98 posted on 07/15/2014 1:24:46 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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