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Still, a very rare event requiring a precise alignment of the star system that gets more improbable and more rare the further out a planet is. And I imagine we
by Udo 14y ago
Still, a very rare event requiring a precise alignment of the star system that gets more improbable and more rare the further out a planet is. And I imagine we need 2-3 data points of transitions at least to exclude false positives - that simply doesn't happen within a reasonable time (e.g. Neptune has an orbital period of 165 years).