Asteroid To Fly By Earth Wednesday Is a Natural

By • on January 13, 2010

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Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on sun-like stars. Those searches have proven successful, turning up more than 400 alien worlds. However, sun-like stars aren’t the only potential homes for planets. New research from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All-Sky Survey confirms that planet formation is a natural by-product of star formation, even around stars much heftier than the sun.

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Source: JPL/NASA: Asteroid To Fly By Earth Wednesday Is a Natural