Low-Mass Exoplanet Found Using Microlensing

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Mar 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006msngr.123...24.&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, volume 123, page 24

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Using a network of telescopes scattered across the globe, including the Danish 1.54-m telescope at ESO La Silla, astronomers have discovered a new extrasolar planet which is only about five times as massive as the Earth, and circles its parent star in about 10 years. It is the least massive exoplanet around an ordinary star detected so far and also the cool-est. The planet most likely has a rocky/icy sur- face. Its discovery marks a ground- breaking result in the search for planets that may support life.

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