What were the new planets that were discovered recently?

More than a decade after the first planets beyond our solar system were found, astronomers have discovered about 200 of these "extrasolar planets," as they're called. Using a common-sense definition of potentially habitable planets, coupled with extensive computer simulations, scientists have calculated how many potentially habitable planets might be detected around other stars by the SIM PlanetQuest mission. ("SIM" stands for Space Interferometry Mission.)

The mission, scheduled for a launch in the next decade, will target planets with specific traits in common with Earth: a similar mass and an orbit in the "habitable zone," not too close and not too far from its parent star. With this mass and location, it's believed a planet could have liquid water on its surface and an atmosphere -- conditions considered necessary for life to gain a foothold.

The science team has shown that, in a survey of the best 120 candidate stars for hosting such planets, SIM PlanetQuest would have the sensitivity to find:

-- Planets smaller than Earth around six stars

-- Planets smaller than twice Earth's mass around 24 stars

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I have no idea what you're talking about.....Pluto was downgraded from being a planet becuase it's far too much like these "new planetoids" that are beyond it. There are so many of them that naming ALL of them would be rediculous....they are far too unlike the main inner 8 planets.

i thought it was that new one that they found planet x after they dubed pluto a dwarf planet

kripton

smallville

west virginia

north/south carolina

florida

alaska

jennifer

aniston

pluto/the dog

donald

lettuce

ketchup

mustard

i can go on and on but i get tired