NASA image shows an artist's impression of a new planet called 2003UB313. The planet discovery was made in 2005 using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California. European astronomers say they have located dozens of giant planets in three distant solar systems.
Three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star and two other solar systems with small planets are discovered by the European researchers. They said their findings, presented at a conference in France, suggest that Earth-like planets may be very common.
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Isn't 2003UB313 in our own solar system? I seem to recall that 2003UB313 was nicknamed Xena for a while, and is now called Eris.
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