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Old 09-May-2008, 10:58 PM
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But maybe the real problem is that not all stars actually have planets and such orbiting them at all. Just a star by itself isn't much of a system.
Not really. While we can't know yet, unless this system is really freakish, virtually all stars would have something orbiting them. How many billions of objects orbit the sun? Eight planets, millions of asteroids, billions of comet fragments, billions of Kuiper belt and Oort cloud objects...
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