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Article: Astronomers Discover Two New Planets, Both Among Hottest Ever.
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- September 26, 2006
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Byline: University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers have discovered two new planets outside our solar system, both extremely close to their stars and thus among the hottest ever found.
A University of Florida astronomer is among more than three dozen astronomers who found the new large planets, announced today at the Transiting Extrasolar Planets Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
Stephen Kane, a UF postdoctoral associate, said he and his colleagues pinpointed the planets by detecting the slight dimming of starlight that occurs when the planets pass in front of their ...