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eppur_se_muova

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5. AND the farther the planet from its primary, the less likely it will be at the right inclination ...
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 12:12 PM
Sep 2012

... if the plane of the planet's orbit is not nearly parallel to our line of sight there will be no transit. The farther out the planet, the closer to parallel it must be.

The large orbit also makes gravitational perturbations harder to detect.

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