Planet Hunters May Rival Indiana Jones.

Abstract: (5 pp) "Or it might have formed from a large burp of matter from its host star, or maybe a passing star just left a chunk of itself behind at some time in the past, "Marcy said. "It may even have moons around it, but I just don't know what to call it." Sounds like conversation from a discarded sci-fi novel, doesn't it? How about that is real conversation from January of this year (2001). Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, at Berkeley, calls himself a "planet hunter." He and his team have located "something,"123 light-years from Earth, is indeed a planet, it would be the largest ever detected. This guy is so big we don't know what to call it," Marcy said. Bibliography lists 3 sources and 2 visuals of expoplanets.

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