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Old 09-October-2006, 01:21 PM
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Default Jupiter Mass Planet Around Nearby Red Dwarf

Here is a paper about a red dwarf that is 8.8 parsecs away that has a planet slightly less massive than Jupiter in a five year orbit. This is the first long period large planet discovered around a red dwarf.
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Sweet, now that we're ten plus years into the planet hunt, we should start seeing the first real sincere Jupiter analogues. Long duration planets around stars which didn't show jovian planets with subdecade orbits.
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It is interesting that red dwarfs seem to be devoid of Jovian-mass planets. Only red dwarf with Jovian-mass planets known before is Gliese 876 which has two Jovians and one hot super-Earth.

However, it doesn't mean they can't have Neptune-mass (a few are known orbiting red dwarfs) or terrestrial planets.
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