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Building a better solar system:astronomer calculates a system can hold 60 earths

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MarcAFK:
Detailing his quest to discover what makes a planet habitable; Sean Raymond of Bordeaux observatory utilizes a binary system, gas giants, leading and following trojans and binary planets in order to cram 60 potentially habitable worlds into the goldilocks zone.
http://planetplanet.net/2013/06/11/build-a-better-solar-system/
Part 2 starts here:
http://planetplanet.net/2014/05/13/building-the-ultimate-solar-system/

Does this absurdity remind anyone of aurora? :p
As an aside I read somewhere that it's possible that milky way holds at least 15-30 billion terrestrial planets...

Garfunkel:
Haha, that's great. Looking forward to seeing such a system in Aurora!

Actually, I wonder if the system generation has a hard cap on planets/moons?

MarcAFK:
I recall before we had forum troubles someone replied here that this subject had already been discossed..

Vandermeer:
Here!

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