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  • Prospects for Finding New Earths Boosted by Brand New Planet-Finding Technique

    07/12/2010 6:29:45 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 13 replies · 1+ views
    ScienceDaily ^ | July 9, 2010 | ScienceDaily staff, Royal Astronomical Society, AlphaGalileo
    A team of astronomers from Germany, Bulgaria and Poland have used a completely new technique to find an exotic extrasolar planet. The same approach is sensitive enough to find planets as small as the Earth in orbit around other stars. The group, led by Dr Gracjan Maciejewski of Jena University in Germany, used Transit Timing Variation to detect a planet with 15 times the mass of the Earth in the system WASP-3, 700 light years from the Sun in the constellation of Lyra... Transit Timing Variation (TTV) was suggested as a new technique for discovering planets a few years ago....