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Ground-based Exo-planet discoveries

Guest_PhilCo126_*	Apr 21 2009, 11:10 AM Post #1
Guests	Well-known exoplanet researcher Dr Michel Mayor ( discoverer of Peg 51b with Dr Didier Queloz in 1995 ) today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, “e”, in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team also refined the orbit of the planet Gliese 581 d, first discovered in 2007, placing it well within the habitable zone, where liquid water oceans could exist: http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-r...9/pr-15-09.html

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scalbers View Member Profile	Jan 1 2010, 06:06 PM Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 738 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184	I guess we can mention GJ1214b and the MEarth project in this thread... http://arxiv1.library.cornell.edu/abs/0912.3229 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GJ_1214_b -------------------- Steve [ my planetary maps page ]

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PhilCo126 Ground-based Exo-planet discoveries Apr 21 2009, 11:10 AM

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PhilCo126 Team of Astronomers using Japanese Subaru Telescop... Dec 5 2009, 05:47 PM

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ngunn On a different topic, I've not noticed discuss... Dec 6 2009, 11:57 AM

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Mongo I will charitably assume that the reporters left o... Jan 9 2010, 02:57 PM

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