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Originally Posted by folkhemmet
I love this thread, thanks. How did you come by the "100 planet candidates" figure? Is this more than just a guess on your part?
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That figure comes from the spacEurope blog. No idea how secure cases those are. If they're just "planetary like transits", the value will no doubt radically fall.
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Originally Posted by folkhemmet
It is fun to speculate on how many new planets will be discovered/announced in a given year. Each year new planets are discovered and the discoveries that astronomers are sure enough about from previous years are announced. Clearly there will be a time when the number of extrasolar planet discoveries really accelerates and the number of candidates piles near a thousand. That time, as the new SuperWASP results and probable COROT results imply, may not be too far off.
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it was thought. Back in 2005, it was believed that when the planetary transit searches are in full swing (like now...) there should be around 186 detections/month. None of the searches turned out as successful than expected, and interestingly the only ones that have found anything are among the ones using the smallest telescopes.