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Originally Posted by Fraser
I was talking with the researchers for TrES-3 and they said that there wasn't going to be a press release. So that confirms it. Extrasolar planets aren't important enough to warrant a press release any more.
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Actually not true... there are certainly no less extrasolar planet press releases than before, there's no point to make press releases of similar discoveries. We already know 20 transiting planets, so TrES-3 is no longer as big news. Another reason is that TrES-3 doesn't have the magic words "habitable" and "water". That doesn't mean it isn't important, of course.
It is incredible if they
don't make a press release about Gliese 436 b... *wink*