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Why does the present method of finding extrasolar planets not favor finding solar systems like ours?
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Doppler shifts are greatest for rapidly moving stars, where their planets are moving very close to them and with periods of much less than a year.  Only Jovian planets will have the mass needed to exert detectible pulls such as this also.
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