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What can exoplanets tell us about our Solar System?

Charles H. Lineweaver, Daniel Grether, Marton Hidas

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0209382

Abstract

We update our analysis of recent exoplanet data that gives us a partial answer to the question: How does our Solar System compare to the other planetary systems in the Universe? Exoplanets detected between January and August 2002 strengthen the conclusion that Jupiter is a typical massive planet rather than an outlier. The trends in detected exoplanets do not rule out the hypothesis that our Solar System is typical. They support it.

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