As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern

Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by fwip on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:01PM (#19942013)

You heard it here first folks, there's so many Earth-sized planets they add up to many times the mass of the rest of the universe. Just a couple billion per star.

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by swombat on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:46PM (#19942365)

You forget that the cloaking devices have weight too... maybe that's where it's gone.

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by bpicolo on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:40PM (#19942836)

Or perhaps dark matter is just the cloak itself. It's nice an thick to provide adequate warmth

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by labster on Friday May 17, 2019 @07:34PM (#19944577)

I'd like to see the math behind the orbital parameters here. The most I've seen is one million Earths in a single system[1], and so I'm curious how you could get a few orders of magnitude more.

[1]: https://planetplanet.net/the-ultimate-solar-system/

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by fwip on Saturday May 18, 2019 @12:37AM (#19945659)

Oh I don't know anything about that, I just plugged in the ratio of the mass of the earth to our sun.

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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by rossdavidh on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:12PM (#19942539)

Well you might want to cloak your star as well, doncha you know.

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