06-January-2009, 09:29 PM
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After a lean period while astronomers waxed fat, another record: HAT-P-11b: A Super-Neptune Planet Transiting a Bright K Star in the Kepler Field describes the smallest radius transiting extrasolar planet found so far, radius 4.73±0.16 R⊕. Mp = 25.8±2.9 M⊕, P = 4.9 days, e = 0.198±0.046. This planet would be very hot.
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