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Limits of Exoplanet Habitability/Extreme Orbits

Extreme Orbits

Researchers

May 25, 2026·Audio

This episode uses Kane & Gelino 2012 to widen the listener's sense of what "in the habitable zone" actually means. Habitability isn't a place; it's a history. A planet that spends 80% of its orbit in the zone may be more habitable than a planet on a circular orbit at the boundary.

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