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| A 15-year-old Schoolboy Has Discovered A New Planet While Doing Work Experience by jobyyjob: 1:44am On Jun 12, 2015 |
A 15-YEAR-OLD schoolboy has discovered a new planet orbiting a star 1000 light years away while he was doing work experience. Tom Wagg was doing work- experience at Keele University in the UK when he spotted the planet by finding a tiny dip in the light of a star as a planet passed in front of it. “I’m hugely excited to have a found a new planet, and I’m very impressed that we can find them so far away’’, said Tom, now aged 17. Now, after two years of observations Tom’s discovery has been verified as a planet. The planet, catalogued as WASP-142b, is in the southern constellation of Hydra and is the same size as Jupiter but orbits its star WASP-142 in only two days. While astronomers worldwide have now found over 1000 extrasolar planets, Tom is possibly the youngest ever to have done so. While the planet is much too far away to see directly, an artist’s impression shows what it may look like. The planet does not yet have a name and the International Astronomical Union has started a contest to name it. Tom said he is looking forward to making a suggestion for his planet. Source: [url]Sourcefolder.[/url] r |
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