The first cool rocky/icy exoplanet

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Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006a%26g....47c..25d&link_type=abstract

Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 3.25-3.30.

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The recent discovery of the first cool, rocky/icy exoplanet around a mainsequence star provides the first observational hint that planets like Earth are common in the universe. It was detected using gravitational microlensing from data of three independent observing teams under the lead of PLANET (Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork), operating a common microlensing campaign with the UK-based RoboNet project. In the coming years intense microlensing observations will determine the abundance of cool rocky/icy planets around M-dwarfs and therefore provide the first observational test of models of planet formation and migration on objects that share their evolutionary history with Earth and other planets on which life had a chance to develop.

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