Extrasolar planets. by Torulf
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15 existing extrasolar planet systems.
Update of earlier version due to new discoveries.
http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
http://www.extrasolar.net/mainframes.html
http://exoplanet.eu/index.php
Comments (9)
juca
Very cool work!! Wonderful.
Xanthmann
Fantastic job!!!
MajinBoo
Stellar picutres, very well done.
PsychoNaut
Awesome, that is so cool. Truly - like the galaxy probably is - teeming with life of some sort!
geirla
Very well done!
Turin_Returns
How wierd! I Was just looking up inforamation on wikipedia about extra-solar planets yesterday and now I've seen this! It must mean something.....
AnteriorLobe
This is really great stuff. They should be somewhere like the extrasolar planet catalog (whose name and URL escapes me at the moment) where the raw numbers are stored. I'm also glad you included a couple of pulsar planets. They tend to get rather a raw deal in newpapers and such because they aren't "earth-like." I was in astronomy in the 1990s and remember when 1257 was announced. (Actually I heard about it before the actual announcement because one of the discovers applied for a position at the university where I was a postdoc. Although it wasn't a secret or anything, just pre-publication.) There were actually two sets of pulsar planets announced at the same time, although one set was withdrawn when that group realized that they had made a critical error. I remember being at a AAS meeting when the head of that group gave a huge talk and announced that they were mistaken. It was very dramatic. Well, for an astronomy meeting. There had been really tentative discovery announcement before then, but nothing was ever confirmed until 1257 was announced in 1992. Then almost instantly a whole slew of extrasolar planets were discovered around much more normal stars using much different methods. A huge amount has been learned in the last 15 years. And there is lot more to be done, systems that have been found to date are, with some exceptions, on the extreme or weird end, there are presumably lots more which are more "normal" that are waiting to be discovered. Anyway, enough of the lecture. This is really an excellent piece of work and I commend you for it.
Tanczos
That's really cool. I am a great fan of pictures with information in! ;o)Tanc
SnowSultan
Wow, this is very interesting! It's neat to actually see a representation of other planetary systems and wonder what could be going on there.