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systemic blog:
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He [Michel Mayor] predicts 1 to 1.5 Earth sensitivity by around 2010 (extrapolating a trend).
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As it was told earlier, the announced planets are only a tip of the iceberg...
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He says he has 40 new candidates in the 30-50 day period range, and mass less than 30 Earths.
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With that number of super-Earth/Neptune candidates, odds for the discovery of a new transiting planet is almost certain.
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[HARPS] [c]an do 0.5 m/s today, 0.1 m/s in near future.
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This should be enough to detect our planet... too bad true solar analogs are probably too noisy spectrally. That's why super-Earth systems are mostly being found around orange and red dwarfs instead of Sun-like G stars.