What are the names of new discovered planets?
Unfortunately either Mia nor Fire seem to have noticed their reference source, though published Feb 17th was published Feb 17th 2005. The number of confirmed exoplanets is now 212 so to learn it is 145 is not exactly newsworthy! According to the Extra-Siolar Planet Encyclopaedia, maintained by the Paris Observatory (appropriately as Neptune was discovered as a result of work at the Paris Observatory)… The new discoveres since January 1st 2005 are 2007 09 February : Two new planets: HD23127 b and HD 159868 b (O’Toole et al.) 07 February : A planet in the Hyades Cluster: eps Tau b (Sato et al.) 2006 09 October : Astrometric confirmation of eps Eri b with Hubble (Benedict et al.) 26 September : WASP-1b and WASP-2b : two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE (Collier Cameron et al.) 14 September : HAT-P-1b: first transiting planet detected by the HATNet network (Bakos et al). The largest planet detected today. 08 September : TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in t
