How long will it be these discoveries get covered by science news websites such as ScienceDaily and LiveScience?

The 2002 record of 34 discoveries is now broken.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Hurrah! To secure that record, there are more discoveries to be announced really soon (including two gravitational lensing planets, in the same system)!

I'm not sure if we can say that we're crossing the border when discovering planets becomes a flood as predicted, but the signs suggest so. The major problem among the extrasolar planet science is not only the lack of money (surprise), but also the lack of scientists, instruments, and time. There are so many systems that most systems can't be studied in enough detail.

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Don't hold your breath. Nowadays only the most interesting extrasolar planet discoveries are noticed. Understandably so, as there are so many "ordinary" planets found.

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What other websites will be updated with the information? I'm assuming that the extrasolar encyclopedia will be one of them.

Yes, and the discoverers' websites are usually up-to-date. You might find some new discoveries at the arXiv.org preprint service. Otherwise, you just have to wait.

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Some planets announced in the Santorini conference by the Geneva team have been released to public:

*HD 43691 b and HD 132406 b, both orbit metal rich stars
*HD 171028 b, a planet around a metal-poor star

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The existence of a planet around a star and the star's metallicity is strongly correlated--but only in the case of low-mass stars. A new study suggests that no such correlation exist among giant stars. It is possible that the observed metallicity is not intrinsic, but pollution from protoplanetary disks. When a star expands into a giant, its atmosphere becomes better mixed and the extra metals disappear.

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A 3-year infrared search of extrasolar planets resulted in zero detections suggesting that super-massive Jovian planets are rare in distant orbits.

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Conclusive evidence of water vapor in an extrasolar planet's atmosphere (see this thread).

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That's not good. It might mean that habitable earth-type planets in earth orbits are equally rare.

Not necessarily. The paper says that almost certainly less than 20% of stars have supermassive Jovians (> 4 Mj) in large orbital distances (20-100 AU).

Which is hardly surprising. In our Solar System, the existence of outer ice giants become problematic if we don't take migration into account. It is hard to see how a far more massive supergiant could form at these distances, except if it is a some sort of sub-brown dwarf instead.

So, no bad news except that it will take longer until new planets can be found using infrared imaging.

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Oh, okay. I was thinking it was saying that Jupiter type planets in Jupiter type orbits (around 5 au) are rare.

Is migration of large planets and subsequent merging with inner planets a likely scenario? Perhaps not as I understand they have very weak densities, though I don't know what percent.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

old news there are some already discovered
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...al&PlanetID=17
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=175
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=192
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetID=138
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetID=213
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetID=214
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=280
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=302
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=201
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=300
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=253
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=199
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=311

http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...al&PlanetId=73 that planet was Jupiterlike when it's star was on the main sequence, now it has more Marslike climate but enough to thaw ice on it's moons...

And there is Neptune-like (in climate, not mass) planet inferred in 40 Eri;
http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour...l&PlanetId=236

And this is only from good old EV!

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5039
Even lifebearing planets may exist in systems with Hot Jupiters...

Thanks. They say Earth-like planets form in the wake of migrating gigantic planets. This seems odd.

What kind of wake are they suppose to leave? Are they not clearing out a path? [Aren't they planets? ]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

All those planets orbit closer than Jupiter and most of them have high eccentricities. A Jovian planet at a distance of our asteroid belt would prevent an Earth-like planet from forming.

Upsilon Andromedae is still a main sequence star...

40 Eridani = Omicron2 Eridani = Keid = the parent star of Vulcanus. You mean Epsilon Eridani.

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