Comments on: COROT launched successfully http://chrislintott.net/2006/12/27/corot-launched-successfully/ The Universe as seen from the perspective of an astronomical researcher, presenter and writer. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:50:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris Lintott’s Universe » Needle in a haystack? http://chrislintott.net/2006/12/27/corot-launched-successfully/comment-page-1/#comment-16756 Chris Lintott’s Universe » Needle in a haystack? Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:44:24 +0000 http://chrislintott.net/2006/12/27/corot-launched-successfully/#comment-16756 [...] I’ve mentioned before just how difficult it is to find extrasolar planets. I’ve also made little secret of the fact that I’m a huge fan of the SuperWASP experiment which adds lenses to professional standard CCD cameras, essentially getting rid of the telescope in order to monitor a huge area of sky for faint dips in the light coming from a star which might indicate the passage of a planet in front of it. The technique works well - one of the leading teams announced the discovery of the largest known planet this way yesterday. (Largest - not most massive. That had me confused for a bit). [...] [...] I’ve mentioned before just how difficult it is to find extrasolar planets. I’ve also made little secret of the fact that I’m a huge fan of the SuperWASP experiment which adds lenses to professional standard CCD cameras, essentially getting rid of the telescope in order to monitor a huge area of sky for faint dips in the light coming from a star which might indicate the passage of a planet in front of it. The technique works well – one of the leading teams announced the discovery of the largest known planet this way yesterday. (Largest – not most massive. That had me confused for a bit). [...]

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