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Planet-hunting method succeeds at last
URL: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0905/29planetfinding/
Submitted: Sun May 31 2009
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A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique, called astrometry, was first attempted 50 years ago to search for planets outside our solar system.