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\u00a0 \u00a0 When I was growing up, although we assumed that other planets existed out in deep space we actually knew of none until 1989. \u00a0Now, almost 3500 have been catalogued. \u00a0 But only ten of those, thus far, have been classified as potentially habitable. \u00a0 Why so few? \u00a0 I\u2019m glad you asked: \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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