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Six new planets:
HD 2638 b, HD 27894 b, and HD 63454 b (Moutou et al)
HD 93083 b and HD 101930 b, (Lovis et al)
HD 142022 Ab (HARPS & Coralie)

Five new planets: HD 45350., HD 99492., HD 117207, HD 183263 and HD 188015 (Marcy et al)

Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder

No planet around HD 219542 B

Independent RV confimation of the transiting planet OGLE-TR-113 b (Konacki et al).

OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53: a definitive planetary microlensing event, detected by the MOA and OGLE teams (I. Bond et al).

Two new very hot Jupiters mong the OGLE transiting candidates: OGLE-TR-113 and OGLE-TR-132 (Bouchy et al).

Nine low radius transit candidates (Drake & Cook).

A new transiting planet candidate (Jurcsik et al, Kondoly Observatory). To be confirmed spectroscopically)

HD 330075 b: the first planet discovered by HARPS (Mayor et al)

Detection of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of the planet HD209458 b (Vidal-Madjar et al)

Two new planet candidates: HD 59686 b et HD 219449 b (Mitchell et al.)

The Eddington space mission (partially devoted to the search for habitable planets) has been cancelled by ESA

Well determined mass of a "cluster planet" (Martin & Zapaterio-Osorio)

Mass of planet around PSR B1620-26, detected 10 years ago by pulsar timing, determined by Hubble (Sigurdsson, Richer, Hansen, et al) (Press Release)

A 6 year period planet in circular orbit around HD 70642 (Carter et al)

MOST space mission, partially devoted to planets, successfully launched

7 new planets:
HD 41004 A (Zucker et al)
HD 65216, HD 111232, HD 142415, HD216770, HD 10647 (Mayor et al)
HD 169830 (2nd planet in known system, Mayor et al)

First "japanese planet candidate" around HD 104985 (Sato et al)

Several new OGLE-III planetary transit candidates