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*Hot Jupiter-type exoplanets, eccentric Jupiter-type exoplanets...and the continuing quest to find more "good" Jupiter-type exoplanets. Discusses the benefits of our own Jupiter's presence in our Solar System. :up:
"The good thing about a solar system that contained a good Jupiter is that it might also harbor an Earth-like - and possibly life-bearing - planet...
Planetary systems that contain good Jupiters, therefore, will make excellent targets for future missions, such as Kepler, Darwin and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, that will be designed to hunt for Earth-sized planets."
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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