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Old 12-October-2008, 04:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Sporally View Post
I think we were talking past each other. Guess Drunk Vegan meant that by the planets we have found it is very likely that there are moons out there, and looking at the sizes of the planets i would say that there probably are Earth-sized moons in orbit around them.
Indeed I was. That's why I specified "we only have data on the Jovians they orbit."

It's entirely plausible that there's at least one habitable moon orbiting an exoplanet we've already discovered. Somewhere in our catalogues there could be a hidden gem where we actually have the coordinates, distance, distance from sun, and data on the planet that moon orbits.

We just don't know it yet because our instruments can't resolve moons around exoplanets yet.
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