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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ Another 'Earth' type plant discovered

Posted by: Myran Mar 14 2006, 01:11 AM

Yet another moderately sized planet found at another star, and not by its gravitational tug of the parent star but found by microlensing, so a second pass of the planet for a confirmation will have to wait for a very long time.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060313_icy_superplanet.html

Posted by: SigurRosFan Mar 14 2006, 12:40 PM

- http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603276 - Microlens OGLE-2005-BLG-169 Implies Cool Neptune-Like Planets are Common

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