(cba:news) NYTimes.com: Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered

[Joe Patterson]

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Here's a recent (today's New York Times) discussion of finding planets by microlensing, using round-the-world photometric coverage -- with Jennie and Grant figuring prominently in the discovery. Another such article, discussing the CBA data of the fall 06 campaign (the "Halloween transient") - esp. the contributions of Tom Krajci and Bob Koff - is about to come out in ApJ and in Sky and Telescope. Pretty interesting stuff... joe


SCIENCE / SPACE & COSMOS | February 15, 2008
Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Astronomers have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/science/space/15planets.html?ex=1203742800&en=2ef9690e766d10ea&ei=5070&emc=eta1




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