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re: The first photographed exoplanet ?

Now if they could only discover a large moon orbiting that
gas-giant planet.
It can be done, indirectly...using the same Doppler-shift
spectronomy techniques they've used to find 140 exoplanets so far.
The transit [occulting] method will work too.

Let's see! A moon 1/10,000th the mass of a 5 jovian-mass planet?
That means such a possible moon would have a mass 1/6th the mass of the Earth,
50 percent more massive than Mars.
Problem is?....Is it's damn cold orbiting a Brown Dwarf at 50-60 A.U.
No habitablezone there.

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