The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418   Message #3462933
Posted By: Rapparee
07-Jan-13 - 08:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
I want my two! I'm going to call them Mud and Cat.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Our Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That's more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe. Just how many are located in the sweet spot where water could exist is "simply too early to call," said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who presented his work at an astronomy meeting Monday.