[Chaos-l] Planet imaged outside solar system

[D Gary Grady]

I don't think this is an April Fool joke. At least there are no obvious 
indications that it is, though I'll reserve final judgment until I see 
confirmation in a source like SCIENCE. But if it isn't a joke, it's 
major news: A planet of about 2 Jupiter-masses has been imaged orbiting 
a relatively young star at a distance of 100 astronomical units (the 
mean distance between the Earth and the Sun).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7357501/

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D Gary Grady
Durham NC USA
dgary at mindspring.com