New Exo-planet Discovered

[marlon]

Read about the discovery of the smallest (1/5th of the Pluto-size) exoplanet. This was just posted on PhysicsWeb, so it is very fresh. I also included some explanatory links, the first goes to the webpage of one of the discoverers...

http://www.physicsforums.com/journal.php?s=&journalid=13790&action=view#NEW%20PLANET%20DISCOVERED%20!!!


enjoy

marlon

[marcus]

Read about the discovery of the smallest (1/5th of the Pluto-size) exoplanet. This was just posted on PhysicsWeb, .......

that's interesting
four modest-size planets going around a pulsar
thanks for posting the link, marlon.

I guess that it is easier to detect small wobbles by a pulsar
because one can do dopplershift analysis very accurately
using the clockpulse of the pulsar

it makes one hopeful that there may be plenty of modest-size planets circling ordinary (not pulsar) stars as well

[Andromeda321]

Twenty percent the size of Pluto... wow! That's quite amazing.