Article: SCOTS BOFFIN FINDS 3 NEW PLANETS; Boost for space team.(News)

Article: WASPS from outer space; Deep space: An artist's impression ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 1, 2007 ;     568 words ... ... scientists in the Wide Area Searchfor Planets (WASP) team yesterday revealed that they had found three ... emitted.Their work led to the discovery of the new planets - called WASP-3, WASP-4 andWASP-5. Professor Cameron said: 'All ...

Article: British astronomers discover three new planets
Xinhua News Agency;  November 2, 2007 ;     490 words ... ... astronomers discover three new planets LONDON, Nov. 2 (Xinhua ... Angle Search for Planets (WASP), a leading planet ... the discovery of three new planets, according to a press ... solar planets named WASP-3, WASP-4 and WASP ...

Article: St Andrews team spots new planets in space
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  September 26, 2006 ;     511 words ... ... collaboration which found the new planets around stars over 1,000 ... to speed up the search for new planets and our aim is now to detect ... breakthrough in the search for new planets orbiting distant stars. Named Wasp-1b and Wasp-2b, the ...

Article: Keele haul of new planets hailed as a top ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  December 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... forefront of an accelerating worldwide search for new planets. So far there have been about 200 discovered ... our Sun The temperature on the surface of the new planets - named WASP-3, WASP-4 and WASP-5 after the Wide Angle Search for ...

Article: LSI Logic technology plays a role in identification of new ...
M2 Presswire;  October 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... plays a role in identification of new planets; The LSI enabled SGI TP9300 ... happen and continue to find more new planets." "Our work is an essential ... have been discovered, named Wasp-1b and Wasp-2b, are in the constellations ...

Article: Brit astronomers discover three new planets
The Hindustan Times;  November 1, 2007 ;     382 words ... ... temperatures in excess of 2,000C (3,632F). The discoveries have made the team from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (Wasp) the first group of astronomers to find planets, known as exosolar planets, outside of our solar system in the skies of the ...

Article: Astronomers reach for the sky and find new planets
Belfast Telegraph;  November 2, 2007 ;     505 words ... ... The project team are the first to have found transiting planets in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The acronym WASP stands for 'Wide Area Search for Planets', a consortium of UK universities searching for transiting exoplanets. Using data ...