Ten new SuperWASP planets (follow
this thread).
No much information about the planets is available yet. From the news release:
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45 planets have now been discovered using the transit method, and since they started operation in 2004 the SuperWASP cameras have found 15 of them – making them by far the most successful discovery instruments in the world. The SuperWASP planets have masses between a middleweight 0.5 and a huge 8.3 times that of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System. A number of these new worlds are quite exotic. For example, a year on WASP-12B (its orbital period) is just 1.1 days. The planet is so close to its star that its daytime temperature could reach a searing 2300 degrees Celsius.
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That planet has the shortest-period of confirmed extrasolar planets. However, some of the SWEEPS planet candidates have much shorter orbital periods.