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28 new planets, 7 new brown dwarfs reported by California, Carnegie team
05-28-2007 · EurekAlert!The combined California and Carnegie Planet Search team and Anglo-Australian Planet Search team announced at this week's American Astronomical Society meeting the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system, a 12 percent increase in the number of known exoplanets. The bounty of new planets, not to mention seven new brown dwarfs, allows the astronomers to draw conclusions about how planets form and how planet systems evolve.
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