Using a relatively new planet-hunting technique that can spot worlds one-tenth the mass of our own, researchers have discovered a potentially rocky, icy body that may be the smallest planet yet found orbiting a star outside our solar system.
The discovery suggests the technique, gravitational microlensing, may be an exceptional technology for finding distant planets with traits that could support life.
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20 bucks they find an Earth II (sort of speak) before 2025!
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Jon
Extrasolar planets become a Polish speciality. First dr Konacki finding the first planet in a triple-star system and now professors Udalski & Paczynki and their gravitational microlensing method...not to mention Alex Wolszczan who had discovered the very best extrasolar planet orbiting a pulsar back in 90'ties.
Don't blame me...we Poles got so few reasons to be proud of so I had to boast of these :)
God bless thy Poles!
(pun intended)
Jon
Love the acronym too:
OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment)
Who makes these up?
Why, Poles!
i also heard it actually means sth ("a delicate fondly touch" AFAIR) in some language...
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