Science on the 6th of October 1995 in history

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06 Oct 1995 51 Pegasi b	science	51 Pegasi b (astronomy and space ) 51 Pegasi b: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence announce in Nature the first definitive detection of an extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main sequence star (51 Pegasi).	0

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06 Oct 1995

51 Pegasi b

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51 Pegasi b (astronomy and space )
51 Pegasi b: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence announce in Nature the first definitive detection of an extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main sequence star (51 Pegasi).

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