Scientists Launch "Planet Hunter"

sliceofscifi.com — A French-led satellite launched on Wednesday to seek out new Earth-like planets beyond the solar system and to explore the interior of stars. The COROT project sent into orbit a telescope capable of detecting planets smaller than is currently known ?some maybe just a few times the size of Earth and rocky, rather than the larger, gaseous types. Dec 27, 2006 View in Crawl 4