STAR TREK:BORG

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Originally posted by Headgehog:
Flamegrape has a point, Elfie. Currently we can only detect gas giants no smaller then Saturn. Or 0.8 Jupiter Masses. We detect planet by the gravitational wobble they cause on their respective stars. Earth-like planets cause too little a wobble to be detected from this far away.

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Actually, smaller terrestrial-type planets have been detected using other methods.