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The proposed global astrometry mission GAIA, recently recommended within the context of ESA's Horizon 2000 Plus long-term scientific programme, appears capable of surveying the solar neighbourhood within ,200 pc for the astrometric signatures of planets around stars down to the magnitude limit of V 17 magY which includes late M dwarfs at 100 pc.
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Lattanzi et al. (2000) studied this question.
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