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  2. For Alien Life-Seekers, New Reason to Hope


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    The New York Times has an article about the recently discovered “super earths” and what that might say about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.

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  3. Super-Earths Around M Dwarf Stars - Competing Theories


    Alan Boss of NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington Team published in the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal a new look at the origin of super-Earths orbiting M dwarf stars. The core accretion mechanism of giant planet formation has been used to explain the presence of these planets. Boss’ new work shows they could also have been formed by the disk instability mechanism.

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