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From the Scientific American article "A Planet is Born," we learn that there are, broadly speaking, two different sizes of dust particles: tiny (like smoke particles) and large (like sand grains). Why do we think it is more productive to look for the larger sandlike grains in order to determine whether planets are present in orbit around another star?
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