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Subject: Extrasolar planets
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Date: Sat, 27-Aug-83 18:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 27 18:44:00 1983
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Science News reports that astronomers using a 1.5 meter astrometric
telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona have found "wobbles" around two stars,
indicating planet sized orbiting bodies.  One of the stars (I forget
its name) is a dim (yet glowing) body about 40 times the mass of
jupiter.  The mass can be determined since it is orbiting another star.
The article pointed out that some astronomers have (falsely) claimed
that Jupiter would have to be 80x larger to ignite fusion.

The same astronomers looked at Barnard's star, and found no evidence of
large planets there.  This directly contradicts earlier claims of
stellar motion caused by a superjovian planet.