Re: Number of low eccentricity distant planets

Mike Williams wrote:

> Decide what value you consider to be "low eccentricity" and count off 
> the pro****tion. As a guide, the eccentricity of the Earth is 0.0167. 
> About 16% of those extrasolar planets have orbits that are less 
> eccentric than that of the Earth. I ignored exoplanets for which the 
> eccentricity has not been calculated.

Note that there are very strong selection effects here which are sure to 
affect the distribution of known eccentricities.  The real answer is 
that we don't yet know.

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