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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :
These, of course are gas giant type planets. Of Jupiter's mass or greater.
Detecting terrestrial sized bodies is harder.
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[This message has been edited by Montgomery (edited December 08, 1999).]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Check out this site to see about the future of finding smaller planets around other stars. In 2003, they plan to launch the Space Technology 3 mission to validate the technology for the Space Interferometry Mission (2005), which should be able to look for smaller planets in other systems. The Terrestrial Planet Finder in 2011 should determine which of these smaller planets are Earth-like. Beyond that is Planet Imager, but, unfortunately, the technology for that one is neither available nor "on the immediate horizon".
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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Assuming they don't @#$% it up like Climate Orbiter and Polar Lander, of course.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, the climate orbiter was indeed a bit of a ****-up. But the lander situation is just weird. It just... disappeared... :-)
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
It's that damned graviton ellipse!
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At least, once I confirmed the site was actually there. It seems to move about quite a bit.