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340: Blame the Bird

Dear Hank & John

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We're Still Working on Detecting a Larger Number of Xo Planets

Close and bigger planets are much easier to detect than farther out, smaller planets. If there's just a little bit of tilt, the close ones might be transiting, but the far ones won't be. It appears that there is a logic like this, a reasonable explanation for why the inner planets of our solar system ar rocky and the outer planets are are gaseous.

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