(Space Fellowship) CoRoT-9b, a temperate exoplanet

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Link: http://spacefellowship.com/news/art19143/corot-9b-a-temperate-exoplanet.html

(DLR) - CoRoT-9b, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet thats orbits its star every 95 days, is the latest discovery of the CoRoT satellite, a project in which the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is a participant. "This exoplanet stands out by virtue of its 'normality'. It is a very close approximation of the planets in our own solar system," says Professor Heike Rauer from the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin, who manages the German contribution to CoRoT. CoRoT-9b lies far away from our Sola [...]