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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/08/26/new.planet/index.html
The system has two other outer gas planets, which makes it more similar to our own solar system than anything else found so far.
...astronomers have found one of the smallest planets known outside our solar system, a world about 14 times the mass of our own around a star much like the sun.
...It could be a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere, a sort of "super Earth"...
But this is no typical Earth. It completes its tight orbit in less than 10 days...Its daytime face would be scorched.
The system has two other outer gas planets, which makes it more similar to our own solar system than anything else found so far.