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Nancy Neal
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-0039)
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410/338-4514)
RELEASE: 00-58
"However the models are not yet reliable at such young ages,
so this test by itself is not conclusive," Tereby cautions. "The
idea remains alive and well that there may be runaway planets and
brown dwarfs (small stars that failed to sustain nuclear fusion)
which formed via ejection from multiple star systems. Theoretical
models by several groups support this idea, and new searches --
including ours -- are finding many new candidates in star-forming
regions. However at this time there is no strong evidence that
TMR-1C itself is a protoplanet."
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The Hubble image of TMR-1C and the initial press
release (from May 28, 1998) are available at:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1998/19/