Beyond Our Own Solar System, the Planets Found to Date

question 29

Multiple Choice

Beyond our own solar system, the planets found to date have tended to be:

• A)Kuiper Belt objects, far from the glare of their suns.
• B)large jovians far from stars like our Sun.
• C)large jovians with orbits more like terrestrial planets.
• D)terrestrials very close to their star, and transiting its disk.
• E)imaginary, with no present proof that they really exist.

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