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Space/Science » in reply to Alberto? It was no joke; GQ Lupi does indeed have a planet.

re: Alberto? It was no joke; GQ Lupi does indeed have a planet.

"I hope to e-mail the German astronomers who recorded the image and petition them to try and record any possible Doppler-shift variations
in the gas-giant's orbital velocity caused by potential moons"

The object out at nearly 100AU is moving too slowly to have its orbital velocity detected. I think this was mentioned in one of the original articles. I also think you need a fairly bright object to get a clear enough spectrum do the doppler thingy, even with Keck class scopes.

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