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ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News

ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News


Analyzing sun-like stars that eat Earth-like planets

Posted: 19 May 2014 06:50 PM PDT

Astronomers have developed a model that estimates the effect that ingesting large amounts of the rocky material from which 'terrestrial' planets like Earth, Mars and Venus are made has on a star's chemical composition and has used the model to analyze a pair of twin stars which both have their own planets.

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