{OT} Iota Horologii
From: "Jesse Casey" <jessecasey@n...>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:57:11 -0500
Subject: {OT} Iota Horologii
Last year, Iota Horologii was found to have a planet, which was named
Iota
Hor b. It was the first exoplanet discovered in an almost Earth-like
orbit.
The star, barely visible to the naked eye, has a mass 1.03 times that of
our Sun and is located 56 light-years from Earth. The system sits in the
southern constellation Horologium, also known as the Pendulum Clock.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dust_disk_001017.html
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