Re: Polscy astronomowie odkryli odlegla, podobna do Ziemi planete!

Jak to wlasciwie jest z tym odkryciem? Komu sie naleza "Laury Chwaly"?
Pozwalam sobie przytoczyc inna wypowiedz w tej sprawie.
Jdr

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Joseph
The following are the authors on "Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth
masses through gravitational microlensing" in the current edition of Nature
(VOL.439; NO.7075; 26/01/2006; pp437-440):

J.-P. Beaulieu, P. Bennett, P. Fouque´, A. Williams, M. Dominik, U. G.
Jørgensen, D. Kubas, A. Cassan, C. Coutures, J. Greenhill, K. Hill, J.
Menzies, P. D. Sackett, M. Albrow, S. Brillant, J. A. R. Caldwell, J. J.
Calitz, K. H. Cook, E. Corrales, M. Desort, S. Dieters, D. Dominis, J.
Donatowicz, M. Hoffman, S. Kane, J.-B. Marquette, R. Martin, P. Meintjes, K.
Pollard, K. Sahu, C. Vinter, J. Wambsganss, K. Woller, K. Horne, I. Steele,
D. M. Bramich, M. Burgdorf, C. Snodgrass, M. Bode, A. Udalski, M. K.
Szymanski, M. Kubiak, T. Wie?ckowski, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O.
Szewczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, B. Paczynski, F. Abe, I. A. Bond, T. R. Britton,
A. C. Gilmore, J. B. Hearnshaw, Y. Itow, K. Kamiya, P. M. Kilmartin, A. V.
Korpela, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, M. Motomura, Y. Muraki, S. Nakamura, C.
Okada, K. Ohnishi, N. J. Rattenbury, T. Sako, S. Sato, M. Sasaki, T.
Sekiguchi, D. J. Sullivan, P. J. Tristram, P. C. M. Yock, & T. Yoshioka.

The lead author, as you will see, is Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, from the
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France.
Princeton's (the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) group was
co-founded by Princeton's Bohdan Paczynski) own release on the subject
describes the discovery being "made by a collaboration of astronomers
worldwide".

Now, it is invariably true that the "eureka" moment will have fallen to one
or may be just two individuals. This is true right through the history of
science: the Leakey's didn't pull the fossils out of the Ethiopian dirt,
someone on their dig tem did; Tony Hewish received a Nobel Prize for the
discovery of pulsars, but it was a young student on his team, Jocelyn Bell
Burnell, who picked up the signal.

This is how science works. Papers are authoroed by teams and, increasingly
so, by very large teams. The human genome papers had more than 200 authors.

The smallest Earth-like exoplanet so far discovered is credited to an
"international team of astronomers" by the very people who made the
discovery. It would not be correct of the BBC to second guess this process.

On a parallel note, you may have been following the Hwang affair. One of
the fallouts from that business is that journal authors in future may have
to stipulate precisely what their role was in the team.

With thanks for your mail, time and interest.
[....]
BBC News Interactive
http://www.bbcnews.com/science



"Jdr" <jdr@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:nU2Cf.110433$7p5.103261@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Polscy astronomowie odkryli odlegla, podobna do Ziemi planete!
> Wielki sukces polskich astronomów. Znalezli planete podobna do naszej
> Ziemi jak zaden inny znany glob spoza Ukladu Slonecznego
> 25-01-2006 22:23 Lukasz Partyka, wom
>
> http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,53600,3131417.html?nltxx=856991&nltdt=2006-01-26-09-05
>
> Dwuglos... Jako jest?
> An "international team of astronomers " czy Polacy?
>
> Smallest Earth-like planet found
>
>
> An international team of astronomers has found the smallest Earth-like
> planet yet outside our Solar System.
> The new planet has five times the Earth's mass and can be found about
> 25,000 light-years away in the Milky Way, orbiting a red dwarf star. The
> discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made using a method called
> microlensing, which can detect far-off planets with an Earth-like mass.
> The planet's cold temperatures make the chance of finding life very
> unlikely.
>
> The planet, which goes by the name OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, takes about 10
> years to orbit its parent star, a red dwarf which is similar to the Sun
> but cooler and smaller. It is in the same galaxy as Earth, the Milky Way,
> but is found closer to the galactic centre.
>
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4647142.stm
>


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