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Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Corot-Exo-7b - smallest yet

Corot has discovered the smallest planet yet, two Earth masses.

OK, it's a tad hot, with an orbital period of 20 hours, but we're getting closer to Goldielocks all the time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7868100.stm
Posted by Phil at 12:17
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