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The Question
(Submitted October 24, 1996)
Can you tell me more about those two new planets that were discovered?
The Answer
To answer any question you have about planets which have recently been
discovered orbiting other stars, there are a number of places to look.
You might want to look at the article by
David Black in the August 1996 issue of Sky and Telescope. We think David
does a very nice job of describing what we know now and what might be
learned in the next few years.
There are also a number of good web sites. Eric Mamajek, of Penn State,
has an excellent page on
Exoplanets (http://etacha.as.arizona.edu/%7Eeem/exo.html). Jean Schneider, of the Observatoire de Paris, runs the
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia (http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html). There are a number of pages run by
extrasolar planet research groups themselves. Marcyand Butler (http://cannon.sfsu.edu/%7Ewilliams/planetsearch/planetsearch.html) work out of San Francisco State University, and
Alex Wolszczan (http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/alex/pulsar_planets.htm), the first to discover an extrasolar planet, works out
of Penn State.
Questions on this topic are no longer responded to by the "Ask a
High-Energy Astronomer" service. See http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/ask_an_astronomer.html
for help on other astronomy Q&A services.
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