Article: Extrasolar Planets.(Extrasolar Planets: A Catalog of Discoveries in Other Star Systems)(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Extrasolar Planets: A Catalog of Discoveries in ...
SciTech Book News;  December 1, 2005 ;     474 words ...0786424052 Extrasolar planets; a catalog of discoveries in other star systems. Kepner, Terry L. McFarland ... masses and orbital characteristics of extrasolar planets. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc ...

Article: Finding suggests extrasolar planets may be more ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... astronomer Gordon Walker. Planets have been found in binary star systems before, but in those cases the two stars were separated ... getting tossed out of orbit by the secondary star, then extrasolar planets might be more common in the universe than previously believed ...

Article: Finding suggests extrasolar planets may be more ...
The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  October 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... astronomer Gordon Walker. Planets have been found in binary star systems before, but in those cases the two stars were separated ... getting tossed out of orbit by the secondary star, then extrasolar planets might be more common in the universe than previously believed ...

Article: Extrasolar Planets
The Gale Encyclopedia of Science;      700+ words ...Extrasolar Planets Extrasolar planets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun. A planet ... gravitational microlensing, and circumstellar disks) to discover extrasolar planets. The existence of extrasolar planets has been suspected ...

Article: Extrasolar planets; today and ...
SciTech Book News;  June 1, 2005 ;     515 words ... ... 2004-114101 1-58381-183-4 Extrasolar planets; today and tomorrow. Conference on Extrasolar Planets; Today and Tomorrow (2003: Paris ... theoretical results from research on extrasolar planets, highlighting progress made in ...

Article: Are most extrasolar planets hefty imposters?(new ...
Science News;  October 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The population of extrasolar planets may be an illusion, according ... standard technique to detect extrasolar planets: It can only detect the minimum ... objects that have been deemed extrasolar planets, assert David C. Black of ...

Article: Extrasolar planets: Seeing is believing.(the first ...
The Economist (US);  November 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... hunters, who have detected nearly 30 extrasolar planets since 1995, have long sought more ... to be true for about 10% of the extrasolar planets found so far. But in previous searches ... the transit has shown not only that extrasolar planets exist, but also that theories about ...