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From the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
© Jean Schneider Observatoire de Paris

2010

   14 June : 6 CoRoT planets: CoRoT 8b, CoRoT 10b, CoRoT 11b, CoRoT 12b, CoRoT 13b, CoRoT 14b,
   12 June : An extrasolar origin for comets ? (Levison et al.)
   11 June : Confirmation of the planet β Pic b (Lagrange et al.)
   17 March :  CoRoT-9b: a transiting Jupiter on a Mercury-type orbit (Deeg et al)
   13 January : First spectrum of the image of an exoplanet (Janson et al)
   04 January :  Kepler-4b, Kepler-5b, Kepler-6b, Kepler-7b and Kepler-8b: first Kepler hot planets

2009

   16 December : Gl 1214 b: a super-Earth transiting a nearby M star (Charbonneau et al.)
   02 December : Planet VB10 b found by astrometry not seen in Radial Velocity data (Bean et al.)
   27 October : The CNES mission CoRoT extended until April 2013
   19 October : 30 planets (Delfosse, Forveille, Hebrard, Lo Curto, Mordasini, Naef, Santos, Segransan et al)
   16 September : CoRoT-7 b,c: first system with 2 super-Earths, one transiting (Queloz, Bouchy, Moutou et al)
   10 August : Kepler detects the secondary transit of HAT-P-7 b (Borucki et al)
   31 July : HAT-P-13 b,c: the first multiplanet system with one transiting planet (Bakos et al).
   30 May : VB 10 b: the first planet candidate discovered by astrometry (Pravdo & Shaklan)
   30 April : HAT-P-12 b: a new transiting hot Saturn (Hartman et al)
   21 April : Gl 581 e: a 1.9 Earth mass planet (Mayor et al).
   21 April : GJ 581 d: a super-Earth in the habitable zone? (Mayor et al).
   10 March :  Change in CoRoT planets names
   07 March :  Kepler Lifted off successfully at 03h48' UT
   26 February : The transit of the 111-day-period planet HD 80606 b has been detected by Moutou et al and Fossey et al
   03 February : CoRoT-Exo-7 b : the first transiting super-Earth (Rouan et al)
   28 January :  Rapid heating of the atmosphere of HD 80606 b (Laughlin et al)
   22 January : Opening of Exoplanet2009.org for the International Year of Astronomy.
   13 January : Membership of IAU Commission "Extrasolar Planets"
   06 January : HAT-P-11 b: the smallest transiting Neptune (Bakos et al)

2008

   10 December :  Carbon dioxide (CO2) detected in the exoplanet HD 189733 b (Swain et al)
   21 November : Probable detection of a planet by imaging around beta Pictoris (Lagrange et al.)
   13 November : 3 planets detected by imaging around HR 8799 (Marois et al)
   13 November : 1 planet detected by imaging around Fomalhaut (Kalas et al)
   03 November : Three new planets: HD 143361 b , HD 43848 b and HD 48265 b (Minniti et al)
   28 October : Six new planets: BD-17 63 b, HD 131664 b , HD 145377 b, HD 153950 b, HD 17156 b and HD 20868 b (Moutou et al)
   29 September : One planet, two names: WASP-11 b/HAT-10 b (West et al. and Bakos et al.)
   16 September : New functionalities in the catalog
   16 June : 5 super-Earths in 3 systems:
HD 40307 b, HD 40307 c, HD 40307 d (Mayor et al
HD 181433 b, HD 181433 c and HD 47186 b, HD 47186 c (Bouchy et al)
   16 June : One system with 2 planets: HD 102272 b and HD 102272 c (Niedzielski et al)
   02 June :  MOA-2007-BLG-192-L b: a 3.3 Earth mass planet detected by microlensing (Bennett et al).
   19 May :  XO-5 b: a new transiting planet (Burke et al)
   19 May : 3 transting CoRoT objects: one compact brown dwarf CoRoT-Exo-3 b and two planets CoRoT-Exo-4 b and CoRoT-Exo-5 b
   01 April : 10 new transiting planets: WASP-6, b to WASP-15, b (Pollacco et al)
   29 March : A note to [Exoplanets] subscribers
   14 February : A Jupiter+Saturn analog system found by microlensing: Ogle-2006-BLG-109L b, c (Gaudi, Bennett et al.)

2007

   20 December : CoRoT-Exo-2 b: second CoRoT transiting planet
   15 December : GD 66 b: first planet candidate around a white dwarf (detected by timing of stellar oscillations by Mullally et al.)
   04 December : Possible detection of polarized reflected light from the atmosphere of HD 189733 b (Berdyugina et al.)
   06 November : A 5th planetary companion to 55 Cnc
   05 November : CoRoT: 300 days in orbit
   31 October : Three new transiting planets: WASP-3 b (Pollaco et al), WASP-4 b and WASP-5 b.
   30 October : OGLE-TR-182 b: new transiting planet (Pont et al)
   18 October : PLATO: a transit mission preselected by ESA for Assessement Study
   16 October : HAT-P-6 b: a new transiting planet (Noyes et al)
   10 October :  HAT-P-5 b: a new transiting planet (Bakos et al)
   04 October : 2 new transiting planets:
HAT-P-4 b (Kovacs et al)
The transiting planet with the largest orbital period (21.2 day): HD 17156 b (Barbieri et al)
   26 July : HAT-P-3b, a new transiting planet (G. Torres et al)
   11 July : First conclusive detection of water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (G. Tinetti et al.)
   06 July : Four new extrasolar planets: HD 43691b (Da Silva et al.), HD 132406 b (Da Silva et al.), GJ 317 b and GJ 317 c (Johnson et al.)
   22 May : Three new transiting planets: TrES-3 (O'Donovan et al), HD147506 = HAT-P-2b (Bakos et al) and Gl 436 b (Gillon et al.)
   03 May : CoRoT-Exo-1b: first exoplanet detected by CoRoT
   02 May : XO-2b, a new transiting planet (Burke et al.)
   02 May : HAT-P-2b: a new transiting planet
   25 April : Gl 581 c, the first super-Earth detected in a habitable zone (Udry et al)
   14 April : Five new planets: HD 125612 b, HD 170469 b, HD 17156 b, HD 231701 b and HD 11506 b (Fischer et al.)
   28 March : A planet around the K giant star 4 Uma (Doellinger et al.)
   05 March : Three new planets: HD 100777 b, HD 190647 b and HD 221287 b (Naef et al.)
   21 February : New infrared spectra by Spitzer for HD 189733 b (Grillmair et al.) and HD 209458 b (Richardson et al.)
   20 February : A new planet: HD 219828 b (Melo et al.)
   09 February : Two new planets: HD23127 b and HD 159868 b (O'Toole et al.)
   07 February : A planet in the Hyades: eps Tau b (Sato et al.)
   19 January : First image of CoRoT on the sky

2006

   27 December : The CoRoT satellite has been successfully launched from Baikonur on Dec 27 at 14h 23min 39sec (UT)
   26 December : The CoRoT satellite will be launched from Baikonur tomorrow
   05 December : Due to a defect on a hydrazine tank of Fregat, the new launch date of CoRoT is Dec. 27
   15 November : The CoRoT spacecraft has arrived at the Baikonour launch base
   14 October : Detection of day/night variation of thermal emission of ups And b (Harrington et al.)
   09 October : Astrometric confirmation of eps Eri b with Hubble (Benedict et al.)
   26 September :  WASP-1b and WASP-2b : two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE (Collier Cameron et al.)
   14 September : HAT-P-1b: first transiting planet detected by the HATNet network (Bakos et al). The largest planet detected today.
   08 September :  TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in the Kepler Field (O'Donovan et al.)
   26 August : A 4th planet in the HD 160691 system (Gozdiewski et al; Pepe et al.)
   15 July : 5 new planets: HD 164922 b , HD 66428 b, HD 99109 b , HD 107148 b and HIP 14810 b (Butler et al. 2006)
   16 June :  beta Gem b: confirmation of a planet suspected in 1993 (Hatzes et al)
   06 June : A dust disk around 2M1207 ? (Mohanty et al)
   18 May : A new transiting planet: XO-1b = GSC 02041-01657 b (McCullogh et al)
   17 May : A planetary system with 3 Neptune-mass planets around HD 69830 (Lovis et al).
   01 May :  Start of the PLANET Anomaly Alert 2006 Season
   18 April : Three new planets: HD 224693 b , HD 33283 b and HD 86081 b (Johnson and NK2 consortium)
   15 March : Two new very eccentric planets: HD 187085 b and HD 20782 b (Jones et al, AAT)
   14 March : OGLE-2005-BLG-169 b: a 13 Earth mass planetary microlensing candidate (Gould et al)
   28 February : HD 73526 c: a new planet in 2:1 resonance (Tinney et al).
   22 February : Strong IR emission from HD 189733b detected by Spitzer (Deming et al)
   25 January : OGLE-05-390Lb: a 5.5 Earth-mass planet on a wide orbit detected by microlensing (Beaulieu et al. and the PLANET, OGLE and MOA collaborations)
   13 January : HD 102195 b: the first planet detected (by radial velocity) by the Exoplanet Tracker (Jian Ge et al)

2005

   30 November : Cha 110913: free floating planet or brown dwarf? (Luhman et al)
   24 November : A 6.9 Jup Mass planet around HD 81040 : HD 81040 b (Sozzetti et al)
   14 October : HD 33564 debris disk is spurious (Bryden et al). See also astro-ph/0509112 revised
   06 October : New transiting planet : HD 189733 b (Bouchy et al.)
   07 September : HD 33564 b: a planet around a star surrounded by a disk (Galland et al)
   30 August : 4 new planets: Gl 581 b (Bonfils et al), HD 118203 b (Da Silva et al), HD 212301 b (Lo Curto et al) and HD 4308 b (Udry et al)
   23 August : Two new hot Jupiters: HD 149143 b and HD 109749 (Fischer D. et al)
   04 August : Planet in a close triple system: HD 188753 (Konacki)
   01 July : HD 149026 b: a saturnian transiting planet (Sato, Fischer et al, NK2 Consortium)
   24 June : Five new multi-component slanetary systems: HD 108874, HD 128311, HD 190360, HD 217107 and HD 37124 (Vogt et al).
   23 June : Indirect clues for a planetary system around the star Fomalhaut (Kalas, Graham & Clampin)
   13 June : 6 - 8 Earth mass planet detected around Gliese 876 (by E.Rivera, J.Lissauer, R.P.Butler, G.W.Marcy, S.Vogt, D.A.Fischer, T.Brown, & G.Laughlin)
   28 May : Planetary microlensing event OGLE-05-071 (Udalski et al)
   17 May : Limit on the albedo of HD 209458 b from the Canadian MOST satellite (Matthews et al)
   30 April : Confirmation of the planet 2M1207 b (Chauvin et al).
   30 April : Brown dwarf/planet companion to AB Pic detected by direct imaging (Chauvin et al).
   26 April : Coming soon: new interactive catalog
   09 April : HD 8673 : the first planet or brown dwarf detected by the Tautenburg Planet Search Program (Hatzes et al)
   05 April : A planet or brown dwarf around the K giant HD 13189 (Hatzes et al)
   31 March : Direct detection by imaging of a young few MJ companion to GQ Lup (Neuhäuser et al)
   22 March : Direct thermal emission detected for two planets by Spitzer Space Telescope : HD 209458 b (Deming et al, Nature) and TrES-1 (Charbonneau et al, ApJ)
   14 February : Six new planets:
HD 2638 b, HD 27894 b, and HD 63454 b (Moutou et al)
HD 93083 b and HD 101930 b, (Lovis et al)
HD 142022 Ab (HARPS & Coralie)
   25 January : Five new planets: HD 45350., HD 99492., HD 117207, HD 183263 and HD 188015 (Marcy et al)

2004

   11 May : Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder
   03 May : No planet around HD 219542 B
   28 April : Independent RV confimation of the transiting planet OGLE-TR-113 b (Konacki et al).
   15 April : OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53: a definitive planetary microlensing event, detected by the MOA and OGLE teams (I. Bond et al).
   14 April : Two new very hot Jupiters mong the OGLE transiting candidates: OGLE-TR-113 and OGLE-TR-132 (Bouchy et al).
   01 April : Nine low radius transit candidates (Drake & Cook).
   25 February : A new transiting planet candidate (Jurcsik et al, Kondoly Observatory). To be confirmed spectroscopically)
   18 February : HD 330075 b: the first planet discovered by HARPS (Mayor et al)
   09 February : Detection of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of the planet HD209458 b (Vidal-Madjar et al)

2003

   17 November : Two new planet candidates: HD 59686 b et HD 219449 b (Mitchell et al.)
   07 November : The Eddington space mission (partially devoted to the search for habitable planets) has been cancelled by ESA
   16 July : Well determined mass of a "cluster planet" (Martin & Zapaterio-Osorio)
   10 July : Mass of planet around PSR B1620-26, detected 10 years ago by pulsar timing, determined by Hubble (Sigurdsson, Richer, Hansen, et al) (Press Release)
   03 July : A 6 year period planet in circular orbit around HD 70642 (Carter et al)
   01 July : MOST space mission, partially devoted to planets, successfully launched
   30 June : 7 new planets:
HD 41004 A (Zucker et al)
HD 65216, HD 111232, HD 142415, HD216770, HD 10647 (Mayor et al)
HD 169830 (2nd planet in known system, Mayor et al)
   26 June :  First "japanese planet candidate" around HD 104985 (Sato et al)
   24 June :  Several new OGLE-III planetary transit candidates

2002

   18 December : A planetary candidate around HD 47536 (Setiawan et al, ESO)