Death to the Planet Death to the Planet Death to the Planet is an EP by British jazz/electronica trio The Comet Is Coming. It was released by The Leaf Label as part of Record Store Day 2017. "Death to the Planet" is the third release by the London-based the group. It follows their initial EP, "Prophecy" (2015), and their Mercury Prize nominated debut album "Channel the Spirits" (2016). It was released on limited edition orange vinyl for Record Store Day, with a subsequent release on black vinyl. The EP was described by Record Store Day as "the sound of total planetary destruction, produced with
Planet a higher proportion of carbon than in the Solar System. A 2012 study, analyzing gravitational microlensing data, estimates an average of at least 1.6 bound planets for every star in the Milky Way. On December 20, 2011, the Kepler Space Telescope team reported the discovery of the first Earth-size exoplanets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, orbiting a Sun-like star, Kepler-20. Around 1 in 5 Sun-like stars have an "Earth-sized" planet in the habitable zone, so the nearest would be expected to be within 12 light-years distance from Earth. The frequency of occurrence of such terrestrial planets is one of the variables in