exoplanetn.
/ˈɛksəʊˌplanɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛksoʊˌplænət/ Astronomy.
A planet which orbits a star other than the sun; an extrasolar planet.
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exoplanet1992
1992 B. F. Burke in Targets Space-based Interferometry 81/1 This led to two independent committee efforts..charged with giving advice on how to carry out a search for other planetary systems (the word ‘exoplanet’ is a compact term for such planets).
1996 Science (Nexis) 26 July 429 The tally of so-called ‘exoplanets’ has now passed the total of nine familiar planets of our solar system.
2014 New Scientist 7 June 17/4 The team have dubbed Kepler-10c a ‘mega-Earth’; because it is too heavy to fit into the super-Earth class of exoplanets, which are bigger than our home world but much lighter than Neptune.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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