Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Lithium as an Indicator of Planets like Ours

Guillermo González of Grove City College in Pennsylvania has, for several years now, provided clues for planet searches. One year ago he published a paper indicating the correlation between Parent Stars of Extrasolar Planets , and the Li signal.

Now Nature Magazine reports confirmation of this link, which undoubtedly will ease the search of planets like ours.

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