Wednesday, January 02, 2008

XO-3b

Recently Johns-Krull et al. Reported a strange planet, they write:

"Apparently the assumption, commonly-held prior to 2007, that short-period planets should have circular orbits was incorrect."

This is a massive planet with a period of 3 days in an eccentric orbit (e=.219).

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