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First Earth-Sized Exoplanet May Have Been Found

1/20/2009

Adam Korbitz writes "New rocketeer is reporting the extrasolar planet MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb — whose find was announced just last summer — may literally be the first truly Earth-sized exoplanet to be identified. A new anatomy suggests the planet weighs less than half the novel estimation of 3.3 Earth masses; the new valuation pegs the planet's size at 1.4 Earth masses. The planet orbits a small red dwarf star, some 3,000 light-years from here, at an orbital stretch

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farness of 0.62 astronomical units, about the same latitude as Venus from our sun. One significance of the planet's finding is that it points to the likely ubiquity of smaller terrestrial planets in somewhat Earth-like orbits around red dwarf stars, the oldest and most multitudinous stars in the galaxy. Here is a video report from the discoverers."