[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ASTRONOMY - StudyStack [PAR] Free flashcards to help memorize facts about ASTRONOMY. Other activities to 
help ... IN 1995, 2 SWISS ASTRONOMERS ANNOUNCED THE FIRST KNOWN 
ONE OF THESE TO ORBIT A STAR OTHER THAN THE SUN, PLANET. IN 1979... [DOC] [TLE] Extrasolar Planets [PAR] Swiss astronomers Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first 
exoplanet in 1995. ... Pluto orbits, on average, about 40 times farther from the 
Sun than Earth. ... star and the planet gravitationally attract one another, causing 
them to orbit ... Most of the known exoplanets are gaseous, similar to the giant 
planets in our... [DOC] [TLE] Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System ... [PAR] Since the first confirmation of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star in 1995, and 
with ... The early technique of tracking wobbling stars revealed one planet after 
another, ... Swiss astronomers Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor in front of La Silla 
... The result: more than 2,000 confirmed exoplanets were sifted from the data, the
... [DOC] [TLE] Extrasolar Planets - Dictionary definition of Extrasolar Planets ... [PAR] The method by which all of the known extrasolar planets have been discovered is 
the radial ... The first detection of a planet orbiting another Sun-like star was ... 
This planet, orbiting the star 51 Pegasi, was found by two Swiss astronomers, 
Michel ... These radial velocity surveys are able to detect only massive planets, 
that is,... [DOC] [TLE] Encarta: The Discovery of Extrasolar Planets - Astronomy ... [PAR] Since October 1995, we and other astronomers have announced the ... But until 
1995, no planets had been discovered orbiting other stars like the sun. .... which 
orbits the star known by its catalog number HD114762, was first discovered in .... 
These large planets may orbit farther out than the one planet we have detected. [DOC] [TLE] Extrasolar Planets - Crystalinks [PAR] An extrasolar planet is a planet which orbits a star other than the Sun, i.e. ... The 
first "true" extrasolar planet was announced on October 6, 1995 by ... These giant 
planets orbit 100 times closer to their host stars than Jupiter does ... Here are the 
five top candidates for an Earth-twin, based on their ESI values. 1. Kepler 438b 2. [DOC] [TLE] Other Planetary Systems [PAR] objects with Earth-like masses orbiting a type of dead star known as a pulsar [
Section 18.2] ... The first discoverya planet orbit- ing a star called 51 Pegasi
was made in 1995 by Swiss ... time, many of them by these same teams of 
astronomers. ... c h a p t e r 1 3  Other Planetary Systems. 397. Jupiter. Sun 
center of mass. [DOC] [TLE] Exoplanets: Worlds Beyond Our Solar System - Space.com [PAR] Aug 24, 2016 ... Astronomers have discovered thousands of extrasolar planets. ... kind of planet: 
one that's the same size as Earth, orbiting a sun-like star in the ... The newfound 
world, known as Proxima b, is about 1.3 times more massive than Earth, ... The 
first confirmed discovery of a world orbiting a sun-like star, in 1995,... [DOC] [TLE] 51 Pegasi b - Wikipedia [PAR] 51 Pegasi b (abbreviated 51 Peg b), unofficially dubbed Bellerophon, later 
named Dimidium, is an extrasolar planet approximately 50 light-years away in 
the constellation of Pegasus. It was the first exoplanet to be discovered orbiting a 
main-sequence star, the Sun-like ... The exoplanet's discovery was announced 
on October 6, 1995, by Michel... [DOC] [TLE] Search for New Planets Yields Confusion - The New York Times [PAR] March 2, 1999 ... The more astronomers study the growing evidence of extra-
solar planets, the ... had known and had based their theories on: the Sun's family 
of planets. ... They have no proof yet of another Sunlike star with more than one ... 
in October 1995 reported the first confirmed planet around another star like the 
Sun. [DOC] [TLE] NASA  A Space Odyssey: 21 Years of Searching for Another... [PAR] 3 days ago ... The first discovery

Question: In 1995, 2 Swiss astronomers announced the first known one of these to orbit a star other than the sun
Answer: planet