Re: was: question about SETI, now: planets around pulsars?

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From: robert.f.casey
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 02:05

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In article <C0HvLB.1op@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Actually very little, as these things go.  The ongoing SETI efforts are
>quite small.
>Astronomers are very interested in the immediate vicinity of pulsars,
>because it's an excellent bet that you can find objects of great theoretical
>interest (accretion disks and such) there.  Peculiar and conspicuous objects
>thereabouts would not be missed.  And yes, astronomers take the possibility
>of finding an extraterrestrial beacon quite seriously -- the first pulsars
>caused a considerable stir until it was clear that they were just natural
>phenomena.

About a year or so ago, some astronomers thought that they might have
found planets orbiting a pulsar.  One suspect pulsar planetary system
turned out to be false (orbit of one "planet" was 1/2 the time of Earth's,
and thus suspect), but another looked good then.  Anyone know if this
other (at the time) good detection has held up?  Confirmed?

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