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  • Is Kapteyn B Not to Be? [Exo-planet oops]

    07/07/2015 6:28:18 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 5 replies
    universetoday.com ^ | on July 7, 2015 | David Dickinson
    In 2014, we reported on an exciting new discovery of two new exoplanets orbiting Kapteyn’s Star. The current number of exoplanet discoveries as of July 2015 sits at 1,932 and counting. An M-class red dwarf, Kapteyn’s Star is relatively nearby at only 13 light years distant. The planetary discovery consisted of a world five times the mass of the Earth in a 48 day orbit (Kapteyn b), and a world seven times the mass of the Earth in a 122 day orbit (Kapteyn c). The discovery was hailed as an example of an ancient—possibly over 11 billion years old—system with...