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60秒科学:探索发现具有地球性质的行星

时间:2010-11-02 11:39:32 来源:scientificamerican 编辑:keke  每天三分钟英语轻松学

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Analysis of 166 stars found almost a quarter--much more than expected--had small, rocky planets, which should force a change in thinking on the overall frequency of such bodies. Adam Hinterthuer reports

If there's a line in Vegas on the odds of life on another planet, now might be a good time to place a wager. A study in the journal Science examined 166 sun-sized stars and found nearly one in four had rocky, earth-sized planets in close, Earth-like orbits. The finding might chart a new course for extrasolar planet research.

Most planet-formation models predict a “planet desert” within one astronomical unit (or the average distance from the Earth to the sun) of a host star. Gaseous planets like Jupiter or Saturn, which form much farther away, on the cold side of what’s called the “ice line,” are thought to be more common.

But a team of researchers at Hawaii's Keck observatory cast their eyes on stars similar to our sun. Twenty-three percent of those stars had small, rocky planets orbiting right in the range where the predicted “planet desert” should be. [Andrew Howard et al., "The Occurrence and Mass Distribution of Close-in Super-Earths, Neptunes, and Jupiters"]

The researchers say their discovery calls for substantial revisions to current astronomical models. It also makes the possibility of life on some similar planet spinning a similar, habitable distance from its sun seem like a better bet.

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