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 | | Subject: Methane, Water, CO_2, (CO?) in XO-1 b 12th February 2010, 1:57 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Methane, Water, CO_2, (CO?) in XO-1 b 12th February 2010, 6:55 pm | |
| What is impressive with this detection is the fact that XO-1 is an 11th mag. star, farther away and thus much fainter than HD209458 and HD189733.
If they can pull this off for XO-1b, they may well be able to do it for many of the XO, TrES, HAT and WASP planets. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Methane, Water, CO_2, (CO?) in XO-1 b 12th February 2010, 7:46 pm | |
| Definitely! With HST serviced and good-as-new, I'm hoping a close look is taken at those transiting systems.
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