Type of site | Astronomy |
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Owner | Paris Observatory |
Created by | Jean Schneider |
URL | exoplanet![]() |
Registration | none |
Launched | February 1995 |
Current status | Active |
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia[1][2][3][4][5] is an astronomy website, founded in Paris, France at the Meudon Observatory in 1995. It has a database of all the known and candidate extrasolar planets.
The main catalogue has databases of all of the known extrasolar planets and a database of unconfirmed planet detections. The databases are updated with new data from peer-reviewed publications and conferences.
As of June 2011, the catalog includes objects up to 25 Jupiter masses,[6] an increase on the previous inclusion criteria of 20 Jupiter masses.[7]As of 2016 this limit was increased to 60 Jupiter masses[8] based on a study of mass–density relationships.[9]