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Originally Posted by mswhin63
Yes this is really cool, had a look at the keplar data on Planethunters.org and I got a mention for one star  It is such a cool site. |
Hey, that's cool Malcolm.
One thing I think about with the Kepler method of finding exoplanets is that there are probably an awful lot of planets not being seen because their orbit is only a few degrees off the plane of observation.
Kepler will only see the planets that cross the disk of a star.
If their orbit plane is tilted a fair bit the 'star wobble' would be noticed (also a method for detecting exoplanets). But I wonder how many are missed when the plane is between the two, where the planets cross just a tad below or above the stars disk.
Maybe the stars' wobble still gives them away.