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3807 confirmedplanets in todays catalog. You can do prettygood statistics with these.
by peter303 8y ago
3807 confirmedplanets in todays catalog. You can do prettygood statistics with these.
- Rebelgecko 8y agoHow useful is that though? They're not a random sampling of planets in the universe--the planets that are easiest to find are very different from our own. Most of those planets are found using methods that work best on huge planets orbiting very close to small stars.
- labster 8y agoI doubt we've even found all of the planets in our own solar system, so our data on planets is really pretty bad for statistics. Fortunately, the James Webb Space Telescope will be finished eventually[0]. [0]: https://www.xkcd.com/2014/ https://www.xkcd.com/2014/