Astronomers Announce the Most Earth-Like Planet Yet Found Outside the Solar System

NSF Press Briefing and Webcast

Monday, June 13, 2005
1:00 to 2:00 P.M., Eastern
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia

An archive of the webcast for on-demand viewing is here.

SPEAKERS

		Michael Turner Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, NSF
		Geoffrey W. Marcy University of California, Berkeley
		R. Paul Butler Carnegie Institution of Washington
		Eugenio J. Rivera Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz
		Jack Lissauer NASA Ames Research Center

Animations

		Gliese 876 and the orbits of its three known planets View video
		A Flythrough Animation of the Gliese 876 System View video

See also:

• News release.
  
  
• Draft of the paper, A ~7.5 Earth-Mass Planet Orbiting the Nearby Star, GJ 876 (submitted to The Astrophysical Journal).

The webcast requires the free RealPlayer which is available at real.com.