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	70 Virginis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		70 Virginis (also designated HD 217014 and SAO 090896, HR 5072) is a main sequence star in the constellation Virgo.
		It has a confirmed extrasolar planet 70 Virginis b (initially named Goldilocks), at least 6.6 Jupiter masses in size, located about 0.5AU from the star.
		In 1996 Geoffrey Marcy used the then known, and uncertain, parallax of 0.112 to derive a distance from Earth of 8.9 parsecs (29 light years), and also derived the effective temperature of the planet to be about 90 degrees Celsius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/70_Virginis (191 words)

	Two New Planets Discovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The stars that have been catapulted to fame are 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris, two otherwise innocuous fifth-magnitude stars near the limit of naked-eye visibility in the constellations Virgo and Ursa Major.
		The discovery of the 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris planets is the result of a project begun in 1987 by San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley.
		Marcy suggests that the atmosphere of the planetary companion to 70 Virginis has a "surface" temperature of 85 degrees C, which is warm enough for liquid water to exist.
	www.astro.ucla.edu /~kaisler/articles/magazines/2newplanetsSN.html (679 words)

	Virgo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The star 70 Virginis is an extrasolar planetary system with one confirmed planet 6.6 times the mass of Jupiter.
		Because of the presence of a galaxy cluster (consequently called the Virgo cluster) within its borders 5° to 10° west of Vindemiatrix (ε Vir), this constellation is especially rich in galaxies.
		Spica [Spica Virginis] or Azimech or Alaraph (67α Vir) 0.98
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Virgo (727 words)

	Extrasolar Visions - 70 Virginis b
		70 Virginis b was one of two planets announced by Marcy and Butler in early 1996.
		Not as brutally hot as 51 Pegasi b and not as cold as 47 Ursae Majoris b, 70 Virginis b was believed to exist in a more temperate orbit that might have allowed liquid water to form on its moons.
		Lost in the light of 70 Virginis itself, this glow would only be visible on the night side of the planet.
	www.jtwinc.com /planettour.asp?PlanetID=22 (1158 words)

	Extrasolar Visions - 70 Virginis b
		70 Vir b is massive enough to be neither tidally locked by its star nor have any significant limits placed on the mass of its moons.
		70 Virginis b is too close to its star for liquid water to be stable on its moons.
		Before the thin blue crescent of 70 Virginis b hangs a small moon so severely heated by tidal stress that lakes of molten lava glow on its surface.
	www.extrasolar.net /planettour.asp?PlanetID=22 (1158 words)

	Two New Planets Discovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The stars that have been catapulted to fame are 70 Virginis and and 47 Ursa Majoris, two otherwise innocuous fifth-magnitude stars.
		The planetary companion to 70 Vir is up to 6.5 times as heavy as Jupiter and has an orbit that is only 117 days in duration.
		The companion to 70 Virginis has a semimajor axis of 2 A.U. Marcy puts the temperature of its atmosphere at 82 degrees Celsius, which is warm enough for liquid water to exist.
	www.astro.ucla.edu /~kaisler/articles/event_horizon/2newplanets.html (762 words)

	eSky: 70 Virginis b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It orbits the nearby yellow star of 70 Virginis in a somewhat closer orbit than the Earth's around the Sun.
		A new day on Goldilocks: the sun-like star 70 Virginis rises over the cloudtops of its mighty planet.
		Officially designated 70 Virginis b, the planet is nicknamed 'Goldilocks' because it is just the right temperature for life as we know it.
	www.glyphweb.com /esky/planets/70virginisb.html (79 words)

	70 Virginis
		70 Virginis is a yellow-orange main sequence dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type G5 Va, but has been previously classified from G2.5 to G4.
		The star has about 1.10 percent of Sol's mass (70 Virginis at exoplanets.org), 2.0 to 2.5 times its diameter (Henry et al, 1997), and 2.9 times its luminosity.
		It moves around 70 Virginis at an average distance of only 0.48 AUs (a semi-major axis around Mercury's orbital distance) in a highly elliptical orbit (e=0.40) that takes almost 167 days to complete.
	www.solstation.com /stars2/70virgin.htm (1063 words)

	CONTACT: 70 Virginis
		The planet, designated 70 Vir b for short, was discovered by very slight periodic shifts in its colors.
		70 Virginis B was discovered in January of 1996 by (who else) Goeff Marcy and Paul Butler.
		Both planets are large, roughly six times the mass of Jupiter for the 70 Virginis planet.
	members.aol.com /phikent/contact.html (750 words)

	A jovian planet orbiting 70 Virginis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Designated 70 Vir B, this planet is believed to have over six times the mass of the planet Jupiter and orbits around its sun in an eccentric orbit once every 116 days.
		70 Vir B's average distance from its sun is about the same as that of the planet Mercury from our own sun.
		In this image a ringed 70 Vir B presides over the hot and airless terrain of a hypothetical moon.
	www.arcadiastreet.com /cgvistas/exo_020.htm (212 words)

	Read about Talk:70 Virginis at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Talk:70 Virginis and learn about Talk:70 Virginis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		If you would like to rewrite it in a coherent paragraph or several, beginning with an explanation of what "70 Virginis" is, that would be grand.
		Now, it seems to me that anyone who gets as far as "70 Virginis" in a wiki is going to know that this is a stellar designation, and if someone else wants to put double brackets around such jargon as "parallax" that might not be in a tiny dictionary, that's one thing.
		Smartpedia is not only for the astronomically aware; when I clicked on [70 Virginis] I was kind of expecting something along the lines of St. Ursula and the 10K virgins.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Talk:70_Virginis (627 words)

	Science News: Two extrasolar planets may hold water - Science News of the Week
		Thus, 70 Virginis is unlikely to possess an array of orbiting bodies akin to our solar system, notes David C. Black, director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
		Butler speculates that the body orbiting 70 Virginis may belong to a new class of objects-superplanets, which have a mass greater than that any planet in our solar system and less than that of failed stars, known as brown dwarfs.
		In fact, Boss maintains, the object circling 70 Virginis is undoubtedly the lowest-mass brown dwarf ever found, and the object circling 47 Ursae Majoris is the most massive planet known.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n4_v149/ai_17907665 (973 words)

	Encyclopedia of Suns: 70 Virginis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		70 Virginis was one of the first stars discovered to have a large planet.
		Unlike the smaller, Jupiter-sized planets orbiting stars like Rho 1 Cancri and 51 Pegasi, the object orbiting 70 Virginis is very large (minimum mass 7.4 times the mass of Jupiter).
		In fact, the mass of 70 Virginis B is close to the theoretical limit for a brown dwarf, a type of object intermediate in mass between true planets and true stars.
	www.astronexus.com /scripts/eos/eos_star.php?IDType=HD&ID=117176 (152 words)

	Encyclopedia: 70 Virginis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified.
		70 Virignis b is an eccentric Jupiter type extrasolar planet which orbits 70 Virginis a subgiant star approximately 59 light years away.
		Mass is a property of physical objects that, roughly speaking, measures the amount of matter they contain.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/70-Virginis (1068 words)

	USING THE 40-FOOT
		Above is a graph of the signal received from the area of 70 Virginis.
		The purpose of my observations was to investigate the area of of 70 Virginis for signs of intelligent life trying to send out communications to us.
		70 Virginis is a star that has been shown to have a planet around it.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/1555/seti.html (810 words)

	eSky: 70 Virginis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		70 Virginis is a yellow dwarf star similar in its physical properties to our own Sun.
		It has a distant binary companion and is one of the small but expanding number of stars known to possess a planetary system.
		This seems to consist of a single gigantic planet with almost seven times the mass of Jupiter, known colloquially as 'Goldilocks'.
	www.glyphweb.com /esky/stars/70virginis.html (60 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - 70 Virginis Solar System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		70 Virginis Solar System, solar system made up of a star, 70 Virginis, which is similar to the sun, and one known planet orbiting the star.
		Solar System, the Sun and everything that orbits the Sun, including the nine planets and their satellites; the asteroids and comets; and...
		Search for books about your topic, "70 Virginis Solar System"
	encarta.msn.com /70_Virginis_Solar_System.html (220 words)

	Other Planetary Systems
		We do not know for sure, but with the recent discoveries about 51 Pegasi, 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris the weight of evidence is now so strong that only a "devil's advocate" denies the conclusions.
		The star 70 Vir is nearly identical to the Sun, though several hundred degrees cooler and perhaps three billion years older.
		But the 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris systems appear to be more "normal".
	www.nineplanets.org /other.html (1806 words)

	70 Virginis b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		70 Vir velocities phased with the orbital fit for a period P=116.7 days.
		The derived minimum companion mass is: M sin i = 6.5 M jup.
		A Planetary Companion to 70 Virginis 1996, Astrophys.
	cannon.sfsu.edu /~gmarcy/planetsearch/70Vir/70Vir.html (55 words)

	70 Virginis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The circle shows the location of the class G star 70 Virginis (in the constellation Virgo).
		The massive planet, at least 6.6 times more massive than Jupiter, orbits the star every 117 days, or 0.31 year, at a distance of 0.43 astronomical units from the star (65 million kilometers, 40 million miles, or 1.11 times the distance of Mercury from the Sun).
		70 Virginis is an easily seen mid-fifth magnitude (4.98) G2.5 ordinary dwarf 59 light years away with a surface temperature of 5600 Kelvin, just a bit cooler than the Sun.
	www.astro.uiuc.edu /projects/sow/70vir.html (153 words)

	Extrasolar Planets - 70 Virginis
		70 Virginis b with one of its moons
		With more than seven Jupiter masses, 70 Virginis b is a giant planet in the true sense of the word.
		In early daytime, these ponds slowly evaporate, leaving behind a liveless desert, as the surface is warmed to 85°C. Small bodies of liquid water may exist at least temporarily on a moon of 70 Virginis b.
	www.exoplaneten.de /70vir/english.html (216 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 97049006
		The dots on Butler's computer screen mark observations of 70 Virginis, a star quite similar to the Sun in mass and age and temperature -- pretty much a garden-variety G star, according to the arcane classification scheme astronomers use.
		A forty-sigma detection means that the wobble they've measured in 70 Virginis's position is forty times as large as the uncertainty in the measuring technique.
		Before the year is over, Butler and Marcy will have more than 70 Virginis to talk about, and they'll take their observing program to the most powerful telescopes on Earth to probe deeper into the Drake equation.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon052/97049006.html (4894 words)

	Outros Sistemas Planetários (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		70 Vir é uma estrela G5V (seqência principal) cerca de 78 anos-luz da Terra; 47 UMa é uma estrela G0V cerca de 44 anos-luz da Terra.
		O planeta ao redor de 70 Vir orbita a estrela em uma órbita alongada, excêntrica a cada 116 dias e tem uma massa cerca de 9 vezes maior que a de Júpiter.
		A estrela 70 Vir é praticamente idêntica ao Sul, embora algumas centenas de graus mais frio e talvez três bilhões de anos mais velha.
	www.noveplanetas.hpg.ig.com.br /other.html (1904 words)

	* 70 Virginis - (Astronomy): Definition
		It is likely that more planetary systems will be discovered using the methods that found 51 Pegasi, 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris.
		On 17 January, 1996, Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler announced they had found two new Jupiter-sized planets circling visible stars: 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris.
		However, since the discovery of the Pegasus Planet, several more planets have been discovered in other constellations, such as 70 Virginis, Upsilon Andromedae, etc. (Rich's Pegopedia).
	en.mimi.hu /astronomy/70_virginis.html (178 words)

	NODEv5n4-1 2 New Planets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Professor Geoffrey Marcy of San Francisco State University announced the discovery of a planet orbiting 70 Virginis (in the constellation Virgo) and one orbiting 47 Ursa Majoris (in the Big Dipper).
		Marcy believes that the planet orbiting 70 Virginis is about nine times larger than Jupiter and orbits its host in 116 days.
		The heat from 70 Virginis would keep the planet at about 185 degrees Fahrenheit which would allow for the presence of liquid water.
	www.seds.org /nodes/NODEv5n4-1.html (509 words)

	Extrasolar Planets - 70 Virginis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Con más de siete veces la masa de Júpiter, 70 Virginis b es un planeta gigante en el verdaderop sentido de la palabra.
		70 Virginis b puede resplandecer suavemente en el espectro rojo e infrarojo.
		De la misma manera que Júpiter, 70 Virginis b podría tener lunas, algunas de las cuales al ser la gravedad del planeta considerablemente alta podrían ser muy grandes, incluso sobrepasando el tamaño de la Tierra.
	www.exoplaneten.de /70vir/spanish.html (251 words)

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