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Astronomers working with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument have discovered a remarkable extrasolar planetary system that has some striking similarities to our own Solar System.
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At least five planets are orbiting the Sun-like star HD 10180, and the regular pattern of their orbits is similar to that observed for our neighbouring planets.
One of the new extrasolar worlds could be only 1.4 times the mass of the Earth, making it the least massive exoplanet (planet outside the Solar System) ever found.
Definitions:
Titius-Bode Law - a hypothesis that orbits of planets in the solar system follow a definite exponential pattern.
Wikipedia: HARPS
HD 10180
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