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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by Kiter1 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @04:36PM (#9938333)
What is the statistical probability that a star will have a planetary disk that Kepler can view edge on and has planets that will occult the star?
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by jswhitten on Thursday July 23, 2015 @05:55PM (#9938761)
Less than 1%. For every star Kepler has detected a planet around, there's a hundred more stars in its field of view with planets it can't see.
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