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From: Yousuf Khan on 16 Jun 2010 10:32
Europe's unappreciated CoRoT satellite just announced 6 new exoplanets
and a brown dwarf.

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SPACE.com -- Oddball Alien Planets Discovered Among Newfound Worlds
"The new collection of planets also includes larger worlds scientists
are now calling CoRoT-10b, CoRoT-11b, CoRoT-12b, CoRoT-13b and
CoRoT-14b. They belong to the planet class known as 'hot Jupiters.'
[Photos: Strangest alien planets.]

The CoRoT satellite also spotted a brown dwarf (CoRoT-15b), which is an
intermediate object between a planet and a star. CoRoT-15b is about 60
times as massive as Jupiter. "
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/six-new-alien-planets-discovered-100614.html
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But then the next day, NASA's very hyped Kepler satellite stole the day,
by announcing the discovery of 750 new exoplanet candidates, 350 of
which it's making public right now!

Yousuf Khan

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New Worlds to Explore? Kepler Spacecraft Finds 750 Exoplanet Candidates
| Universe Today
"The Kepler spacecraft has found over 750 candidates for extrasolar
planets, and that is just from data collected in the first 43 days of
the spacecraft's observations. "This is the biggest release of candidate
planets that has ever happened," said William Borucki, Kepler's lead
scientist. "The number of candidate planets is actually greater than all
the planets that have been discovered in the last 15 years."

This is an astounding amount of potential exoplanets from data taken
during such a short period of time, however Borucki added that they
expect only about 50% of these candidates to actually turn out to be
planets, as some may be eclipsing binary stars or other artifacts in the
data. But still, even half would be the biggest group discovery of
exoplanets ever.

And the exciting part is that 706 targets from this first data set have
viable exoplanet candidates with sizes from as small as Earth to around
the size of Jupiter. The team says the majority have radii less than
half that of Jupiter."
http://www.universetoday.com/2010/06/15/new-worlds-to-explore-kepler-spacecraft-finds-750-exoplanet-candidates/
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