# Yay, more Super-Earths

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**Created:** [June 27, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/yay-more-super-earths/264597 "2008-06-27T17:20:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanontheMoon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/danonthemoon/32/7436_2.png) [@DanontheMoon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DanontheMoon)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/yay-more-super-earths/264597/1 "2008-06-27T17:20:03Z")

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> **[A trio of super-Earths](https://phys.org/news/2008-06-trio-super-earths.html)**
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> Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they have found a triple system of super-Earths...

> [@PhysOrg](#):
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> Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they have found a triple system of super-Earths around the star HD 40307. Looking at their entire sample studied with HARPS, the astronomers count a total of 45 candidate planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses and an orbital period shorter than 50 days. This implies that one solar-like star out of three harbours such planets.

Man, this is cool. Even though I don’t work for Roskosmos - er, NASA - anymore, I still love this stuff - after all, no federal agency has a monopoly on Space.