Ceres is one of the dwarfplanets in our solarsystem as well as the roman Goddes of agriculture. The gravity of 0.028G is pretty weak but strong enough to keep you on the object if you leap into the air.

For sol exist 5 dwarfplanets namely: Pluto, Ceres, Eris (1 Moon) which was formaly know as Xena, Haumea(2 moons) and Makemake. Furthermore exist 4 ""nearly certain" dwarf planets which are Orcus (1 moon), Quaoar(1 moon), 2007 OR10 (nicknamed at first "Snow white" later 7th Dwarf because its a actually rather red) and Sedna.

Exoplanet Encyclopedia entry (the main page still has it listed in Latest News as the first transiting circumbinary planet)

Here's the Wikipedia page on the system

Here's a Wikipedia also a Wikipedia page that says there are several older confirmed ones, presumably by methods other than transiting.

Here's an article from Sky & Telescope about the Kepler-16 planet.

I remember reading about this back in September and getting pretty excited; it's not exactly Tatooine  or anything, but still pretty neat. (it's Saturn-esque, if I remember correctly)

As of December 2, 2011, a total of 707 confirmed exoplanets are listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, including a few that were confirmations of controversial claims from the late 1980s. That count includes 580 planets in planetary systems and 84 planets within multiple planetary systems. A system has been discovered in which a planet orbits around two suns, which orbit around each other.

As of February 2011, NASA's Kepler mission had identified 1,235 unconfirmed planetary candidates associated with 997 host stars, based on the first four months of data from the space-based telescope, including 54 that may be in the habitable zone.

Most known exoplanets orbit stars roughly similar to our own Sun, that is, main-sequence stars of spectral categories F, G, or K. One reason is that planet search programs have tended to concentrate on such stars. But in addition, statistical analysis indicates that lower-mass stars (red dwarfs, of spectral category M) are less likely to have planets massive enough to detect. Observations using the Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that stars of spectral category O, which are much hotter than our Sun, produce a photo-evaporation effect that inhibits planetary formation.

Ordinary stars are composed mainly of the light elements hydrogen and helium. They also contain a small proportion of heavier elements such as iron, and this fraction is referred to as a star's metallicity. Stars of higher metallicity are much more likely to have planets, and the planets they have tend to be more massive than those of lower-metallicity stars. It has also been shown that stars with planets are more likely to be deficient in lithium

Steve now that Exoplanets get discovered almost dayly any plans of adding them to the appropriate stars? Also 1800 stars is a lot thanks for the effort.

If anyone has their own favourite stars (or has named one for their wife/girlfriend <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile. gif" alt="" title="Smile" />), let me know and I will include it in Aurora's DB.

Steve

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Awesome Steve..

U have think how many Stars System atm (in a Quad Core IBM CPU) can manage an actual PC?