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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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