Other dynamical habitability issues
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- Appears to be a reasonable system.
- However, no significant accretion beyond 1AU.
- These may not be habitable because of a nearby asteroid belt.
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- This may not be habitable because of a massive Oort cloud (see Wetherill 1993).
- Oort cloud in the system is ~4X that in our Solar System.
- In our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn made Oort cloud formation inefficient.
- Jupiter is currently protecting Earth from impacts: Only ~0.1% of comets get by Jupiter (Levison et al 2001).
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LPC impact rate could be 4000 times higher than on Earth
- One 1km comet will hit every 500 years!