A Dozen New Planets Discovered: Universe today

Exo-planets – in 2005 they were still quite rare

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/12_new_planets.html?1822005

Summary – (Feb 18, 2005)

In the last month planet hunters have uncovered 12 new worlds orbiting other stars, bringing the total planet count to 145. Two European planet hunting teams have discovered 6 gas giants as part of the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Search (HARPS), and an American team uncovered 5 more using the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii. And a single, Pluto-sized planet was discovered orbiting a pulsar by Penn State’s Alex Wolszczan and Caltech’s Maciej Konacki.

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