23.9.9 CoRoT-7b: A Rare Earth.
September 23, 2009 by David Dickinson
Filed under Astro News, Astro News & Commentary
The “Super-Earths” are getting smaller. Recently, the ESA announced that an exoplanet discovered on February 3rd of this year by the CoRoT (Convection Rotation and planetary Transit) satellite is one of the lightest yet… at about five Earth masses, this transiting exoplanet is about twice the diameter of the Earth. But don’t pack your bags [...]
