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"Astronomers Discover Smallest Free-Floating Exoplanet Yet......
“When we first spotted this event, it was clear that it must have been caused by an extremely tiny object,” said co-author Dr. Radoslaw Poleski, an astronomer with the Astronomical Observatory at the University of Warsaw.
The newly-detected microlensing event, designated OGLE-2016-BLG-1928, lasted only 41.5 minutes.
“Indeed, models of the event indicate that the lens must have been less massive than Earth, it was probably a Mars-mass object. Moreover, the lens is likely a rogue planet.”
“The discovery of OGLE-2016-BLG-1928 demonstrates that current microlensing surveys are capable of finding extremely-short-timescale events,” the researchers said.
“Although the mass of the lens cannot be unambiguously measured, properties of the event are consistent with the lens being a sub-Earth-mass object with no stellar companion up to the projected distance of 8 AU (astronomical units) from the planet.”
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