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Old 02-January-2008, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by George View Post
How many exoplanets would you guess CoRoT might introduce? [I want 4. ]
You got one.

A hot Jupiter, but not as typical as it seems. It is unusually massive (3.53 MJ) for such a large planet (1.429 RJ).

Let's hope the CoRoT team gets lots of observation time to conduct RV confirmations...
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