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Half of Nobel Prize in Physics honors exoplanet trailblazers — Physics Today
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- Authors
- Grant, Andrew
- Issued
- 2019-12-1
- Type
- article-magazine
- Container
- Physics Today
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 12
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Claims
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Mayor and Queloz used their ELODIE spectrograph on a 1.93 m telescope at the Haute-Provence Observatory to survey 142 stars; Mayor announced 51 Pegasi b on October 6, 1995, at a conference in Florence. The planet is roughly Jupiter's mass and circles its star every four days, which no one had expected, and it was soon confirmed by Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler.
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Planet-mass bodies had been found around a neutron star in 1992, but they probably formed differently from most planets and their dead host star is unlikely to support life, so 51 Pegasi b is credited as the first planet found around a Sun-like star.
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