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Old 05-April-2008, 03:39 PM
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I would say that the odds of stable planetary orbits around a star in a GC are very low. The orbits of stars in a GC are not circular. They are highly elliptical and even a star on the periphery of the GC has been near the crowded center before and will be again!
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