As reported in this BBC article:

So, with about 300 billion stars in our galaxy, there could be about 30 billion planetary systems in the Milky Way alone; and a great many of these systems are very likely to include Earth-like worlds, say researchers.

Thanks to Ye Olde Phart for the link.

Posted by jzawodn at July 03, 2002 09:54 PM

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