Word: biesbroeck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a University of Arizona team announced the first sighting of a planet outside the solar system. It appeared to be the long-awaited breakthrough hi the search for planetary systems other than our own: a warm ball of gas about the size of Jupiter seen orbiting around Van Biesbroeck 8, a star some 21 light-years from the earth. Since a light-year is the distance light travels in one year at the rate of 186,000 miles per sec., that would put the planet about 123 trillion miles from the earth. Said a confident Donald McCarthy...