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Planet controversy ends

06 Jan 1998

Three years ago astronomers believed they had discovered the first evidence of a planet orbiting a G-type star. More recent data disagreed with this assessment. Now new observations by some of the leading skeptics have lead them to change their minds, and confirm the existence of the planet.

The new evidence is published in this week’s Nature. Two papers, one by David Gray of the

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