Two new yet-to-be announced transiting planets:
* TrES survey has found its third planet. TrES-3 is "a nearby, massive, transiting hot Jupiter in a 31-hour orbit". No further information available.
* XO-3b (not yet announced) resembles HAT-2-b in the sense it has an eccentric orbit (e ~ 0.2) and it is very massive (12 MJ, near the brown dwarf border). Since its host star is metal-poor, it is possible that it is actually a brown dwarf.
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