BBC
News: Astronomers may have found a way to identify those
Sun-like stars most likely to harbour orbiting planets.A survey
of stars known to possess planets shows the vast majority to be
severely depleted in lithium.To date, scientists have detected
just over 420 worlds circling other stars using a range of
techniques.
Garik
Israelian and colleagues
tell
the journal
Nature
that future planet hunts could be narrowed
by going after stars with particular compositions.
