A scientometric prediction of the discovery of the first potentially habitable planet with a mass similar to Earth.

BACKGROUND: The search for a habitable extrasolar planet has long interested scientists, but only recently have the tools become available to search for such planets. In the past decades, the number of known extrasolar planets has ballooned into the hundreds, and with it, the expectation that the di...

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Main Authors: Samuel Arbesman, Gregory Laughlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2949384?pdf=render