

NASA via BBSNews - 2005-06-30 --Researchers recently discovered the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar planet, and their discovery confirms a planet formation theory....
...When a consortium of American, Japanese and Chilean astronomers first looked at this planet, they expected one similar to Jupiter. "None of our models predicted that nature could make a planet like the one we are studying," said Bun'ei Sato, consortium member and postdoctoral fellow at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, Japan...more...