Extrasolar planets examples

Table 6.1 Some examples of extrasolar planets. For comparison the values of Jupiter is also given. Mast is the mass of the host star (in solar masses), Porb the orbital period, a the semi major axis (in AU), e the eccentricity, Mp the planet s mass and 2 the planet s rotation period...

Modern telescopic and spacecraft study of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, their properties, and their systems of rings, moons, and magnetospheres, has been the purview of the planetary scientist with little connection to the universe beyond until 1995, when the first extrasolar giant planet was discovered. Now the solar system s giants are the best-studied example of a class of some 100 objects which—while only one has been measured for size and hence density—may be present 10% of Sun-like stars. 

---