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They were wrong. As it happened, Butler was in the middle of rewriting the software last October to accommodate the spectrometer's newly heightened sensitivity when a disconcerting flood of E-mail started pouring in. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, had just detected a planet circling the star 51 Pegasi, lying 45 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Says Queloz: "We first thought that our instrument was faulty, but repeated verifications and computations finally convinced us that we had bagged a planet...
...GENEVA WAS BRIMMING WITH HOLIDAY cheer as a small convoy of cars set out for France. The travelers looked more respectable than any ordinary party of vacationers. In their four cars, the 16 French and Swiss nationals included three little girls, two policemen, a Geneva psychotherapist and the son of a famed European former skiing champion...
According to Geneva T. Malenfant, chair of the CCA, three candidates are rumored to be soliciting the other councillors for their votes...
...gone from gloom and doom to pleasant surprise," said CCA President Geneva T. Malenfant...
...Since Ken Reeves is gay, I would think his number two's would go to Katherine Triantafillou and Jonathan Spampinato," said Geneva T. Malenfant, president of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). "Since he's black, his votes might go to Lester Lee, Barbara Pilgrim or Marty Connor...