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| Bjorn Damm |
 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:13 am |
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"Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our
Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius only 50% larger than
the Earth and capable of having liquid water. Using the ESO 3.6-m
telescope, a team of Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists
discovered a super-Earth about 5 times the mass of the Earth that
orbits a red dwarf, already known to harbour a Neptune-mass planet.
The astronomers have also strong evidence for the presence of a third
planet with a mass about 8 Earth masses"
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2007/pr-22-07.html |
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