Hunting for signs of extrasolar planets — or exoplanets — is hard, but counting them can also prove tricky. Today, however, our historic era of exoplanetary discovery has turned into a red letter day; the first 1,000 exoplanets to be confirmed have been added to the Europe-based Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia.
For the last few weeks, astronomers (and the science media) have been waiting with bated breath as the confirmed exoplanet count tallied closer and closer to the 1,000 mark. Then, with the help of the Super Wide Angle Search for Planets (SuperWASP) collaboration, the number jumped from 999 to 1,010 overnight.
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Latest Additions:
WASP-76 b — 0.92 Jupiter masses, orbital period: 1.8 days
WASP-82 b — 1.24 Jupiters, 2.7 days
WASP-84 b — 0.694 Jupiters, 8.5 days
WASP-90 b — 0.63 Jupiters, 3.9 days
WASP-95 b — 1.13 Jupiters, 2.2 days
WASP-96 b — 0.48 Jupiters, 3.4 days
WASP-97 b — 1.32 Jupiters, 2.1 days
WASP-98 b — 0.83 Jupiters, 3 days
WASP-99 b — 2.78 Jupiters, 5.8 days
WASP-100 b — 2.03 Jupiters, 2.8 days
WASP-101 b — 0.5 Jupiters, 3.6 days
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