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!Name ||Star||Type||Mass(M⊕)||Radius(R⊕)||Flux(F⊕)||Teq(K)||Period(Days)||Distance(Ly)||ESI
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| [[Earth]] || {{StarG|G}} || Warm Terrain || 1.0 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 287.35 || 365.242 || - || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=1.00}}
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| [[KOI-6863.01]] || {{StarM|M}} || Warm Terrain || 0.83 || 0.937 || ? || 368.5±46.4 || 4.486 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}}
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| [[KOI-1404.02]] || {{StarM|M}} || Warm Terrain || 0.832 || 0.94 || 3.03 || 336.5±43.9 || 18.906 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}}
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| [[KOI-5192.01]] || {{StarK|K}} || Warm Terrain || 0.832 || 0.94 || 4.29 || 367 || 50.55 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}} 
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| [[KOI-5554.01]] || {{StarF|F}} || Warm Terrain || 0.89 || 0.96 || 2.25 || 312 || 362.22 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}} 
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| [[KOI-2124.01]] || {{StarK|K}} || Warm Terrain || 1.00 || 1.00 || 1.84 || 309.3 || 42.34 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}} 
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| [[KOI-5950.01]] || {{StarG|G}} || Warm Terrain || 1.00 || 1.00 || 2.31 || 314 || 109.44 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}} 
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| [[KOI-5568.01]] || {{StarF|F}} || Warm Terrain || 1.20 || 1.06 || 3.01 || 336 || 186.40 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}} 
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| [[KOI-7099.01]] || {{StarK|K}} || Warm Terrain || N/A || 1.07 || ? || 337 || 34 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}} 
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| [[KOI-7591.01]] || {{StarK|K}} || Warm Terran || N/A || 1.4 || ? || 193.4 || 328.3 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}}
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| [[KOI-2708.01]] || {{StarG|G}} || Warm Superterran || ? || 2.78 || 0.4 || 203 || 556 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}} 
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| [[KOI-7296.01]] || {{StarF|F}} || Warm Superterran || 24.4 || 2.9 || ? || 324.6 || 659.4 || ? || {{User:Davidbuddy9/ESIScore|esi=}} 
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==Speculation==
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!Name ||Star||Radius(R⊕)||Period(Days)||Habitable(Y/N)
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| [[Kepler-1002b]] || F || 1.71 || 4.36 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1005b]] || G || 1.5 || 6.5 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1005b]] || K || 1.44 || 5.19 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1008b]] || K/G || 1.28 || 12.43 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1009b]] || K || 2.17 || 11.35 || {{No|Unlikley}}
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| [[Kepler-1010b]] || G || 2.32 || 34.26 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1011b]] || G || 2.87 || 5.75 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1012b]] || G || 1.29 || 5.51 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1013b]] || K || 2.15 || 18.93 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1014b]] || G || 2.39 || 16.57 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1016b]] || G || 2.18 || 1.96 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1017b]] || G || 1.99 || 7.23 || {{Eliminated}}
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| [[Kepler-1020b]] || G || 2.28 || 96.92 || {{Eliminated}}
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More opimistic confirmed planets:
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!Name ||Star||Radius(R⊕)||Period(Days)||Habitable(Y/N)
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| [[Kepler-1124b]] || M || 1.28 || 2.85 || {{No|Unlikley}}
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| [[Kepler-1178b]] || K || 1.07 || 31.81 || {{No|Unlilkey}}
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| [[Kepler-1229b]] || M || 1.4 || 86.83 || {{Yes|Possible}}
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==Exoplanet discoveries==
''Main article: [[Sarah Ballard]]''

She took part in the discovery four [[exoplanet]]s before she turned 30 years old, including [[Kepler-19c]], the first exoplanet found using the [[transit-timing variation]] method on data from the ''[[Kepler (spacecraft)|Kepler]]'' mission.<ref name=Bell2014>{{citation|title=Seattle astronomer discovers four planets before she turns 30|date=September 10, 2014|author=Rachel Bell|publisher=[[KIRO (AM)|KIRO]] radio|url=http://kiroradio.com/874/2605620/Seattle-astronomer-discovers-four-planets-before-she-turns-30|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420011016/http://kiroradio.com/874/2605620/Seattle-astronomer-discovers-four-planets-before-she-turns-30|archivedate=2015-04-20}}</ref><ref>{{citation|publisher=[[Space.com]]|title=Stealth Alien Planet Discovered By New Technique|author=Mike Wall |  date= September 8, 2011|url=http://www.space.com/12879-stealth-alien-planet-kepler-transit-timing-variation.html}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=The Seattle astronomer who discovered 4 planets before age 30|author=Jake Uitti|work=[[Crosscut]]|date=October 15, 2014|url=http://crosscut.com/2014/10/seattle-astronomer-sarah-ballard-carl-sagan/}}</ref>

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! colspan="10" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Planet Discoveries of Sarah Ballard
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! colspan="10" style="background: {{star-color|M}};"|[[Planet|Planets]] Discovered: 4
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! Number
! Planet<br>Designation
! Type
! Size Class
! System
! Constellation
! Discoverer(s)
! Year
! Discovery Method
! Telescope
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| 1
| [[Kepler-19b]]
| Exoplanet
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| [[Kepler-19]]
| Lyra
| Sarah Ballard et al.
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| Transit
| Kepler
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| 2
| [[Kepler-61b]]
| Exoplanet
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| [[Kepler-61]]
| Lyra
| Sarah Ballard et al.
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| Transit
| Kepler
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| 3
| Kepler-93b
| Exoplanet
| Super-Earth<ref>http://phys.org/news/2014-08-exoplanet-remarkable-precision.html</ref><ref>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/most-precise-measurement-of-an-alien-world-achieved-140725.htm</ref>
| Kepler-93
| Lyra
| Sarah Ballard et al.
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| Transit
| Kepler
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| 4
| [[Kepler-19c]]
| Exoplanet
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| [[Kepler-19]]
| Lyra
| Sarah Ballard et al.
| 2011
| Transit-timing variation
| Kepler
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{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
Size class = Planet radius distribution (radius of [[Earth]]).<ref name=Coll20131010>{{Youtube|26ZOrszExvs|Sarah Ballard, "Exoplanet Validation by Asteroseismology"}}, NYU Physics Colloqium, 2013 October 10.</ref>
<br>{{•}} Earths<ref name=Coll20131010/>         = 1.0 to 1.3 Earth radii.<ref name=Coll20131010/>
<br>{{•}} Super-Earths<ref name=Coll20131010/>   = 1.3 to 2.0 Earth radii.<ref name=Coll20131010/>
<br>{{•}} Small Neptunes<ref name=Coll20131010/> = 2.0 to 4.0 Earth radii.<ref name=Coll20131010/>
<br>{{•}} Large Neptunes<ref name=Coll20131010/> = 4.0 to 6.0 Earth radii.<ref name=Coll20131010/>
<br>{{•}} Giant Planets<ref name=Coll20131010/>  = 6.0 to 22.6 Earth radii.<ref name=Coll20131010/>
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Discovery method =
<br>{{•}} Transit
<br>{{•}} Transit timing variation
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! |'''Name'''
! class="unsortable" |''' Image <br>(art. concept) '''
! |'''{{abbr|M<sub>⊕</sub>|Mass (in Earth masses)}}'''
! |'''{{abbr|R<sub>⊕</sub>|Radius (in Earth radii)}}'''
! class="unsortable" <!---nothing yet to sort--> |<!---'''Density'''--->
! |'''{{abbr|g|Surface gravity (1 - standard Earth gravity)}}'''
! |'''{{abbr|T<sub>s</sub>|Surface temperature}}'''
! |'''{{abbr|''a''|Semi-major axis in astronomical units}}'''
! |'''{{abbr|''e''|Orbital eccentricity}}'''
! class="unsortable" |{{abbr|[s]|Main source}}
! |'''{{abbr|D|Distance from the Sun in lightyears}}'''
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| [[Wolf 1061b]]|| ||≥1.36||≥1.44||	||	||	|| ||	||	||13.8
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| [[Wolf 1061c]]|| ||≥4.3||≥1.64||	||	||	|| ||	||<ref name="ReferenceA">http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data</ref>	||13.8
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| [[Wolf 1061d]]|| ||≥5.21||≥2.04||	||	||	|| ||	||	||13.8
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| [[Gliese 876 d]]<ref>{{cite journal | title=Oligarchic and giant impact growth of terrestrial planets in the presence of gas giant planet migration | url=http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full/2005/38/aa3453-05/aa3453-05.html | last1=Fogg | first1=M. J. | last2=Nelson | first2=R. P. | journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics | date=2005 | volume=441 | issue=2 | pages=791–806 | doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20053453 | bibcode=2005A&A...441..791F | arxiv=astro-ph/0507180 }}</ref>||[[File:Artist’s view of an exoplanet inspired by the discovery of Gliese 876 d.jpg|150px|left]]||6.8|| || || ||157<br />–<br />377&nbsp;°C<ref>Rivera, E. et al. (2005). "A ~7.5 M⊕ Planet Orbiting the Nearby Star, GJ 876". The Astrophysical Journal 634 (1): 625–640</ref> || 0.021||0.21||<ref>Eugenio J. Rivera, Gregory Laughlin, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, Nader Haghighipour, Stefano Meschiari (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A Uranus-mass Fourth Planet for GJ 876 in an Extrasolar Laplace Configuration\".</ref>||15
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| [[Gliese 682|Gliese 682 b]]|| ||≥2	||	||	||	||	|| ||	||<ref name="arxiv.org"/><br /><ref>http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~abel/phl/tuomi/hec_orbit_GJ_682_b.png</ref><br /><ref name="ReferenceA"/>	||16
|-
| [[Gliese 832 c]]|| ||≥5.4	||	||	||	|| 295 ||  0.162 || 0.03 || <ref name="phl.upr.edu"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://phl.upr.edu/press-releases/gliese832|title=A Nearby Super-Earth with the Right Temperature but Extreme Seasons - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo|publisher=|accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref>||16.16
|-
| [[82 G. Eridani b]]|| || ≥2.7	 ||	||	||	||	|| 0.1207 ||	0||<ref name=epe_HD_20794/>||19.71
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| [[82 G. Eridani c]]|| || ≥2.4	 ||	||	||	||	|| 0.2036 ||	0||	<ref name=epe_HD_20794/>||19.71
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| [[82 G. Eridani d]]|| || ≥4.8	 ||	||	||	||	388 K<ref name=aaa534/>|| 0.3499 ||	0||<ref name=epe_HD_20794/>||19.71
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| [[Gliese 581 e]]||[[File:Planet Gliese 581 e.png|150px|left]]||≥1.7|| || || || || 0.029||0||<ref>Vogt, S. S.; et al. (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581</ref>||20
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| [[Gliese 581 c]] <ref>{{cite journal |author=Valencia |title=Radius and Structure Models of the First Super-Earth Planet | date=2006 |journal=[[The Astrophysical Journal]]|volume=656|issue=1|pages=545–551|doi=10.1086/509800 |last2=Sasselov |first2=Dimitar D. |last3=O'Connell |first3=Richard J. |bibcode=2007ApJ...656..545V|arxiv = astro-ph/0610122 }}</ref>||[[File:Planetary System in Gliese 581 (artist's impression).jpg|150px|left]]||≥5.6|| || || || || 0.072||0||<ref>Vogt, S. S.; et al. (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581\".</ref>||20
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| [[Gliese 581 d]] <ref>{{cite journal|bibcode=2007A&A...476.1365V|title=The Habitability of Super-Earths in Gliese 581|author=von Bloh, W.; Bounama, C.; Cuntz, M.; Franck, S.|journal=[[Astronomy & Astrophysics]]|volume=476|issue=3|pages=1365–1371|doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20077939|date=2007|arxiv = 0705.3758 }}</ref>||[[File:Planet Gliese 581 d.png|150px|left]]||≥5.6|| 2.34<ref name="hec">[http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog]. The values are just the best estimates and are subject to change.</ref>|| || 1.27<ref name="hec"/>|| 233 K<ref name="hec"/>|| 0.218||0||<ref>Vogt, S. S.; et al. (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M⊕ Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581</ref>||20
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| [[HD 219134 b]] ||[[Image:PIA19833-RockyExoplanet-HD219134b-ArtistConcept-20150730.jpg|150px|left]] ||4.5  ||1.6  || ||700 K  || || || ||<ref>http://phys.org/news/2015-07-astronomers-star-super-earths.html</ref>  || 21
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| [[Gliese 667C b]] ||[[Image:Gliese 667.jpg|150px|left]] || 6.30 ||  || || 1.44 || 445 K || 0.05 || 0.09 || <ref name="hec"/> || 22
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| [[Gliese 667C c]]<ref>{{cite arXiv|eprint=1111.5019|author1=Bonfils|author2=Delfosse|author3=Udry|author4=Forveille|author5=Mayor|author6=Perrier|author7=Bouchy|author8=Gillon|author9=Lovis|title=The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXXI. The M-dwarf   sample|class=astro-ph.EP|date=2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://phl.upr.edu/press-releases/apotentialhabitableexoplanetinanearbytriplestarsystem|title=A Potential Habitable Exoplanet in a Nearby Triple Star System - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo|publisher=|accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref> ||[[File:Gliese 667 Cc sunset.jpg|150px|left]] || 3.8 ||  || || 1.32 || 302 K || 0.13 || 0.34 || <ref name="hec"/> || 22
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| [[61 Virginis b]]<ref>{{cite arXiv |last=Vogt |first=Steven |authorlink= |eprint=0912.2599v1 |title=A Super-Earth and two Neptunes Orbiting the Nearby Sun-like star 61 Virginis |class=astro-ph.EP |date=2009 |version= |author2=Wittenmyer |author3=Paul Butler |author4=Simon O'Toole |author5=Henry |author6=Rivera |author7=Stefano Meschiari |author8=Gregory Laughlin |author9=Tinney }}</ref>||[[File:Artist concept 61vir b.png|150px|left]]||≥5.1|| || || || || 0.050||0.12||<ref>Vogt, Steven (2009). \"A Super-Earth and two Neptunes Orbiting the Nearby Sun-like star 61 Virginis</ref>||28
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| [[HD 85512 b]]<ref>{{cite journal|title=A Habitable Planet around HD 85512?|first=L|last=Kaltenegger|first2=S|last2=Udry|first3=F|last3=Pepe|date=2011|arxiv=1108.3561|bibcode=2011arXiv1108.3561K|volume=1108|pages=3561}}</ref>||[[File:HD 85512 b (Artists's impression).jpg|150px|left]]||≥3.6|| 1.74<ref name="hec"/>|| ||1.33<ref name="hec"/> || 351 K<ref name="hec"/>|| 0.26||0.11||<ref name="Kaltenegger">Kaltenegger, L.; Udry, S.; Pepe, F. (2011). A Habitable Planet around HD 85512?</ref>||36
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| [[Gliese 180|GJ 180 b]]|| ||≥2.3	||	||	||	||312 K	|| ||	||<ref name="arxiv.org"/><ref name="phl.upr.edu">{{cite web|url=http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data|title=HEC: Data of Potentially Habitable Worlds - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo|publisher=|accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref>		||38
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| [[55 Cancri e|55 Cancri e (Janssen)]]||[[File:Newneptune nasa big.jpg|150px|left]]||8.6|| || || || || 0.016||0.17||<ref>Rebekah et al.; Fabrycky (2010-05-21). \"Radial velocity planets de-aliased. A new, short period for Super-Earth 55 Cnc e\". The Astrophysical Journal 722: 937–953</ref>||40
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| [[HD 40307 b]]<ref name="Mayor2009">{{cite journal|author= M. Mayor, S. Udry, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, W. Benz, J.-L. Bertaux, F. Bouchy, C. Mordasini, D. Segransan|title=The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)|arxiv=0806.4587|bibcode = 2009A&A...493..639M |doi = 10.1051/0004-6361:200810451|date= 2009|journal= Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume= 493|issue= 2|pages= 639–644 }}</ref>||||≥4.2|| || || || || 0.047||0.2||<ref name="Mayor">M. Mayor, S. Udry, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, W. Benz, J.-L. Bertaux, F. Bouchy, C. Mordasini, D. Segransan (2009). \"The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)\". Astronomy and Astrophysics 493 (2): 639–644</ref>||42
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| [[HD 40307 c]]<ref name="Mayor2009" />||||≥6.8|| || || || || 0.081||0.06||<ref name="Mayor" />||42
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| [[HD 40307 d]] <ref>{{cite journal|arxiv=0901.1698|author=Barnes, R., Jackson, B., Raymond, S., West, A., Greenberg, R.|title=The HD 40307 Planetary System: Super-Earths or Mini-Neptunes?|journal=[[The Astrophysical Journal]]|date=2009|doi=10.1088/0004-637X/695/2/1006|volume=695|issue=2|pages=1006|bibcode=2009ApJ...695.1006B}}</ref>||[[File:A Trio of Super-Earths (artist's impression).jpg|150px|left]]||≥9.2|| || || || || 0.134||0.07||<ref>M. Mayor, S. Udry, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, W. Benz, J.-L. Bertaux, F. Bouchy, C. Mordasini, D. Segransan (2009). \"The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)\". Astronomy and Astrophysics 493 (2): 639–644.</ref>||42
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| [[HD 40307 e]]|| || ≥3.5	 ||	||	||	||	|| 0.1886 ||0.15||	<ref name="tuomi12" />||42
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| [[HD 40307 f]]|| || ≥5.2	 ||	||	||	||385°K	|| 0.247 ||0.02||	<ref name="tuomi12" />||42
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| [[HD 40307 g]]|| || ≥7.1	 ||	||	||	||	284  K<ref>{{cite web |title=HEC: Data of Potential Habitable Worlds |url=http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data |date=November 12, 2012 |publisher=[[University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo]] (Planetary Habitability Laboratory)}}</ref>|| 0.600 ||0.29||<ref name="tuomi12" />||42
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<!--- <small>Note: all masses except of [[55 Cancri e]], [[HD 40307 b]] and [[Gliese 876 d]] are ''minimal'' masses</small> --->

'''Note''': There is no [[scientific consensus]] about terrestrial composition of most of the planets in the list. Sources in the "Main source" column confirm the ''possibility'' of terrestrial composition.

In September 2012, the discovery of two planets orbiting [[Gliese 163]]<ref name="Simbad-20120920">{{cite web|author=Staff |title=LHS 188 -- High proper-motion Star |url=http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=HIP+19394 |date=September 20, 2012 |publisher=[[Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg]](Strasbourg astronomical Data Center) |accessdate=September 20, 2012 }}</ref> was announced.<ref name="PHL-20120829">{{cite web |last=Méndez |first=Abel |title=A Hot Potential Habitable Exoplanet around Gliese 163|url=http://phl.upr.edu/press-releases/ahotpotentialhabitableexoplanetaroundgliese163 |date=August 29, 2012|publisher=[[University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo]] (Planetary Habitability Laboratory)|accessdate=September 20, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Space-20120920">{{cite web |last=Redd |first = Nola Taylor|title=Newfound Alien Planet a Top Contender to Host Life|url=http://www.space.com/17684-alien-planet-gliese-163c-extraterrestrial-life.html|date=September 20, 2012|publisher=[[Space.com]] |accessdate=September 20, 2012 }}</ref>  One of the planets, [[Gliese 163 c]], about 6.9 times the mass of Earth and somewhat hotter, was considered to be within the [[habitable zone]], but is probably not terrestrial.<ref name="PHL-20120829" /><ref name="Space-20120920" /> In May 2016, the finding of three earth-like planets of ultracool dwarf [[TRAPPIST-1]] has been released.