Third amateur astronomer discovery of an exoplanet
AMATEUR DETECTS PLANET 260 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY
One day before an international team announced that a planet periodically
crosses the face of an 8th-magnitude star in Hercules, California amateur
astronomer Ron Bissinger recorded a partial transit of the planet at his
home observatory. He also detected partial transits during the next two
opportunities, allowing him to produce a composite light curve of a
complete event. The new find is now the third transiting exoplanet to be
detected by amateurs....
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