Vera Rubin Telescope Could Detect Mars, Mercury And Pluto Sized Planets from 2025-2035
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6KN2N)
Researchers estimate that the number of captured free-floating planets in the outer solar system with mass strictly greater than that of Mars is 1.2 and that the number of such planets with a strict cutoff at the mass of Mercury is 2.4. When they instead adopt logarithmic bins centered at the Mars mass and the ...