Cosmic Queries – Discovering Exoplanets with Gáspár Bakos
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The Evolution of Exoplanet Surveys
Last I checked, the catalog of exoplanets was nicely rising through 5,000. And you're going to make predictions about how soon we'll hit maybe 10,000, doubling that number? Yeah, that's a very hard thing to extrapolate. At what rate are you discovering exoplanets? Well, so our rate, we actually found 140 something exoplanets between 2006 and now. But you know, space missions have a limited lifetime.
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