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Old 11-October-2008, 04:40 PM
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Thx, but could you give me a more direct link to the page you've read that article about the exoplanet gossip on?
There are no articles, just rumors circulating... most I've learned from Siguršsson's blog, he has an access to the extrasolar planet conferences where these things have been mentioned.

Well, looks like the 1.7 Re planet has been mentioned in a CoRoT press release article from May:

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The team also announced that they have detected signals as small as 5 parts in ten thousand. If this arises from a transit it would imply the detection of a planet with a radius 1.7 times that of the Earth.
Since the CoRoT team seems to follow closely ESA's PR tradition, don't expect to hear about it anytime soon.
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