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CoRoT planet-hunting satellite given a 3 year extended mission
The CoRoT Satellite : 3 More Years To Hunt For Planets And To Listen To
The Music Of Stars "However the quality of the scientific results obtained to date is such to clearly grant an extension of the mission. For instance, CoRoT measured vibrations of various types of stars, some similar to the Sun, some more massive or older : these results need now to be confronted with theory. The CNES satellite also revealed that most stars are much more variable than thought. On the exoplanets side, the crop is to date 7 confirmed planets, with many more candidates currently scrutinized by ground telescopes. Several of these detections are world firsts, such as the smallest and only rocky exoplanet known to date, CoRoT-7b (which is also the one exhibiting the shortest revolution period around its host star-20 hours), or the densest one, CoRoT-3b." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1106104413.htm |
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