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Old 08-April-2008, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by folkhemmet View Post
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?
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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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.
So 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.
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