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		mr_toad 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made i... A couple of dozen collisions out of 6000+ known exoplanets. Not exactly common, but not freakishly rare either.

quotemstr 7 months ago [–]

Those are just the ones we caught in the act. That we can see 6,000+ means that there are many more we don't see.

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