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500 exoplanets, 18 years after the first discovery we know 500 of them
Mirek
post Nov 23 2010, 01:36 AM
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As of today (November 22nd 2010), NASA's PlanetQuest page counter shows 500 known / confirmed exoplanets.

Who knows how reliable that counter is, but I think it is something worth mentioning.

18 years since first exoplanet has been discovered and we know of 500 of them. That's 27-28 planets (on average) each year ... which is amazing.

Now waiting for next Kepler announcements.
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Hungry4info
post Nov 25 2010, 09:43 AM
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The planets at HD 10180 have been known for a while now. They were made public in an ESO release last August. As typically happens for these press releases, the paper appears on arXiv some time after.


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- Mirek   500 exoplanets   Nov 23 2010, 01:36 AM
- - Hungry4info   It should be noted that it's difficult to real...   Nov 23 2010, 02:03 AM
- - Drkskywxlt   Jean Schneider posted a "warning" about ...   Nov 23 2010, 05:32 PM
- - Mirek   There is also this article on space.com. "[....   Nov 23 2010, 07:39 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   Can bump that number up by 5-7 today with a big ha...   Nov 25 2010, 01:45 AM
- - nprev   These jammed low-mass systems sound like very inte...   Nov 25 2010, 02:17 AM
- - Hungry4info   The planets at HD 10180 have been known for a whil...   Nov 25 2010, 09:43 AM

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