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NASA's latest planetary discovery is ringing a literary bell ; Planet orbiting a nearby star calls sci-fi's 'Ringworld' to mind
2004
Overview
Astronomers estimate that about 20 billion planetary systems exist in the Milky Way. NASA hopes to discover a planet like Earth by 2020 using the planned Terrestrial Planet Finder, a space telescope that will measure characteristics of planets found in distant solar systems. The only problem? \"Their ringworld doesn't match my ringworld,\" [Larry Niven] says. His novel describes a visit to a vast ring orbiting a star -- not a planet at all. Still, Niven says, he's amazed at the discovery during the past decade of about 135 planets orbiting nearby stars. \"Writers of my generation thought we would have to travel to other stars to see if they had planets. It blows me away we are finding them from Earth.\"
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USA Today, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc
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