earthlike
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One of the primary objectives of the Kepler mission was to find out how many stars hosted planets and especially to estimate the frequency of earthlike planets.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
“It seems possible to make it earthlike, but there's a lot of barriers to overcome,” Toon said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2015
Perhaps 0.000001 per cent exists in earthlike planets.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015
Or was the origin of winged insects, flying mammals like bats, and the roughly 10,000 species of birds that use earth’s atmosphere, simply a one-off evolutionary fluke likely never to repeat on another earthlike planet?
From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2014
The great elevated plain of Retama separates the black, basaltic, and earthlike lava, from the vitreous and feldsparry lava, the basis of which is obsidian, pitch-stone, and phonolite.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
