Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being or originating outside the solar system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In astronomy, situated outside of or beyond the solar system.
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- adjective astronomy Of or originating outside the
Solar System - adjective astronomy Of or originating in a
solar system other thanEarth's
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet until the 1990s, with the discovery of a star that wobbled suggesting it was being orbited by a large object, there was no concrete evidence that any of these so-called extrasolar planets existed.
Take me to your leader Kylopod 2010
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Yet until the 1990s, with the discovery of a star that wobbled suggesting it was being orbited by a large object, there was no concrete evidence that any of these so-called extrasolar planets existed.
Archive 2010-04-01 Kylopod 2010
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His lead character here is Paul Butler, now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who has been involved in scores of planet discoveries since the first so-called extrasolar planet was found in 1995.
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It is one of the lightest and smallest so-called extrasolar planets yet found, part of a growing class of planets that are less than 10 times the mass of Earth.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2010
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That growth in knowledge is illustrated by the work done by Hubble on the distant worlds known as extrasolar planets.
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Astronomers looking for planets encircling stars outside our solar system-known as extrasolar planets, or exoplanets-are claiming the first planetary detection
Scientific American 2009
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It is one of the lightest and smallest so-called extrasolar planets yet found, part of a growing class that is less than 10 times the mass of Earth.
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It is one of the lightest and smallest so-called extrasolar planets yet found, part of a growing class of planets that are less than 10 times the mass of Earth.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2009
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It is one of the lightest and smallest so-called extrasolar planets yet found, part of a growing class of planets that are less than 10 times the mass of Earth.
Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica 2009
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More than 300 so-called extrasolar planets have been found circling distant stars, making their discovery the hottest and fastest growing field in astronomy.
International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions By DENNIS OVERBYE 2008
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