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Baja has a great point, but I think another one beyond the transit time is relative size.

Unless there's a jovian planet with life out there your best bet at measuring a regular sized planet is around a small stars. Dwarfs.

When we had our massive planet surveys measuring transits we found a shit ton of jovian's around stars and some earth sized planets around smaller stars.

Time to measure transit and relative size are king.



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