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I can't access the server :(. It says I am not white-list.

Aside from a scattering of planets that today don't really make the news, it's been pretty uneventful until now. However a second planet has been found in the Gliese 667 C system. The planet is about four times the mass of Earth and receives 90% of the insolation from its star that Earth...

Recovery of the outer three planets at HR 8799 with old (1998) HST data, providing a much improved observational baseline with which to calculate their orbits. Press release.

Three planets (two Neptunes in a mean motion resonance and a super-Earth further in) transiting Kepler-18. http://www.europlanet-eu.org/outreach/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=354&Itemid=41 http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/kepler18b/ arXiv paper.

Re: Tech curently in devlopment that will allow us to visitp I was replying the the original post.

Re: Tech curently in devlopment that will allow us to visitp There are no propulsion engine technologies that can get people to Pluto in a reasonable amount of time for any reasonable definition of reasonable, at least reasonably far into the future.

This planet was detected using a different method (direct imagery), rather than the wobble method. Using the wobble method would probably take millennia for this planet. Correct.

Image of a planet at FU Tau. It's been known about for a little while now, but IIRC, it has just recently been confirmed to be bound to the system.

It should be noted that Kepler-16 b is not the first circumbinary planet found. PSR B1620-26 b holds that title. Eclipsing binaries found to host planets since then include DP Leonis, HW Virginis (two planet candidates), NN Serpens (two planet candidates), HU Aquarii (two planet candidates), and...

Kepler-16b, the first transiting circumbinary planet. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-16b.html

~50 New planets. 16 are super-Earths. http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1134/eso1134b.pdf Looks like the planets at 82 Eri and HD 85512 are reported here as well.

LOL! :lol:

Yes. Manually. You can open any .ssc and .stc file and see that definitions for stars and planets are pretty straightforward. It doesn't take much effort to write one up and craft planets and stars all over the Universe. :)

Discovery and Atmospheric Characterization of Giant Planet Kepler-12b: An Inflated Radius Outlier http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1611

Additional Kepler results. For the first time, a non-transiting planet has been discovered through transit timing variations, at Kepler-19. Press release. EPE Stats. Discovery Paper. "The Kepler-19 System: A Transiting 2.2 R_⊕ Planet and a Second Planet Detected via Transit Timing...