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To: bigheadfred; null and void

The number is really only 100K times the number of planets in orbit around stars, a number currently less than 1000. Not for long of course, and our ability to detect extrasolar planets has ever-expanding limits, but...


72 posted on 03/11/2012 9:52:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: SunkenCiv
The number is really only

This is one of those "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it" moments.

78 posted on 03/11/2012 10:13:19 AM PDT by bigheadfred
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