Have planets been found around stars in the Big Dipper?

A planet has been found by Paul Butler and Geoff Marcy, orbiting the star 47 Ursa Majoris With a mass of about 2.6 times that of Jupiter, an orbit period of 1084 days and a distance of 2 AUs...about like the orbit of Mars in our solar system.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald

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