Here is a list
of some of the extra-solar planets found so far;
Within 100 Light-year:
GLIESE 581 has the smallest potential rock
planet yet found, a planet not much larger than the Earth, but denser
and in a much closer orbit.
MU ARAE has a planet with as little as 14
times Earth's mass, a possible super-Earth made of rock.
GLIESE 876, one of the smallest stars found
to have planets, one of them 5.9 times Earth’s mass.
GLIESE 436, a red dwarf star, has a Neptune-mass
planet, as little as 21 times Earth's mass.
55 CANCRI has four planets, one that weighs
as little as 14 Earths - a potential super-Earth.
51 PEGASI is the first sun-like star found
to have a planet.
HD 70642 has a gas giant in a six-year, roughly
circular orbit - the closest counterpart to Jupiter yet found.
Within 200 Light-year:
HD 209458 has the first planet seen dimming
the light of its star. |