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Other Great Links
General Information
- The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
- The Search for Extrasolar Planets
- Astronomy.com: Extrasolar Planets: Fifty and Counting
- Scientific American: A Parade of New Planets
- Extrasolar Planetary Systems
- Sky & Telescope: Habitable Moons: What does it take for a moon to support life?
- Searching for Extrasolar Planets
- Nova On-line: Hunt for Alien Worlds
- Solar System
- European Southern Observatory press Release 18/98: Extrasolar Planet in Double Star System Discovered from La Silla
Planet-hunting Methods
- Extrasolar Detection Methods
- SETI Central: Finding Extrasolar Planets - Warble, Wobble or Wink
- Capabilities of Various Planet Detection Methods
- High precision Doppler measurements: The physics and techniques for finding planets
- Extra-Solar Planet Detection
Space Agency/Organization Planet-hunting Projects
- NASA The Kepler Mission Home Page
- NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) Home Page
- NASA Origins Program Home Page
- European Space Agency: Project Darwin Home Page
- Extrasolar Research Corporation
- Spectrashift.com: Amateur Extrasolar Planet Search
Books
- "The Quest for Alien Planets: Exploring Worlds Outside the Solar System," by Paul Halpern
- "Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems," by Ken Croswell
- "World-Building," by Stephen L. Gillett, Ben Bova (Editor)
- "Looking for Earth: The Race to Find New Solar Systems," by Alan Boss
- "Are We Alone in the Cosmos?: The Search for Alien Contact in the New Millennium," by Ben Bova (Editor), Byron Preiss (Editor), William R. Alschuler (Editor)
- "Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life," by Simon Levay, David W. Koerner
