The First Five-Planet System:
55 Cancri

Artist's Rendering by Lynette Cook

NASA Press Release (Telecon)

 

See Press Release at NASA:
(Teleconference) http://www1.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/telecon-20071106/
(Article) http://www1.nasa.gov/vision/universe/newworlds/exoplanet-20071106.html

Discovery Paper:
"Five Planets Orbiting 55 Cancri", 2007, ApJ In Press. (PDF)¹

Debra A. Fischer², Geoffrey W. Marcy³, R. Paul Butler⁴, Steven S. Vogt⁵, Greg Laughlin⁵, Gregory W. Henry⁶, David Abouav², Kathryn M. G. Peek³, Jason T. Wright³, John A. Johnson³, Chris McCarthy², Howard Isaacson².

 

¹Based on observations obtained at the W.M. Keck Observatory, which is operated jointly by the University of California and the California Institute of Technology. Keck time has been granted by both NASA and the University of California.

²Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA 94132

³Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720-3411

⁴Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Rd NW, Washington DC, USA 20015-1305

⁵UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA 95064

⁶Center of Excellence in Information Systems, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd, Box 9501, Nashville, TN 37209