Exoplanet MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb

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“Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own.”

Read more (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/tech/7432114.stm)

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3 times the mass of our own, not size slight difference aftherall earth is 2 times as big as mars but 10 times as heavy.

It's a nice discovery that big planet can form around small stars Who knows what they eventualy find around proxima centauri.

Anyway one thing is for sure the list of assumed rocky terrestrial planets is going to go up.