Word: 209458b
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Harvard’s team observed light from TrES-1, while GSFC’s team observed light from HD 209458b, but Charbonneau said the similarity of the results makes them even more convincing...
...addition, Charbonneau said the GSFC team discovered that HD 209458b, which is 70 percent of Jupiter’s mass but 35 percent larger, orbits in a circular path. Previously, he said, astronomers believed that the planet’s surprising largeness could be explained by an elliptical orbit, but said this theory no longer holds...
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