Water world larger than Earth

Geoffrey Marcy
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Geoffrey Marcy: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. gmarcy@berkeley.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 462, issue 7275, 853-854

Abstract: The hunt for Earth-like worlds has taken a major step forward with the discovery of a planet only 2.7 times larger than Earth. Its mass and size are just as theorists would expect for a water-rich super-Earth.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1038/462853a

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