Ten extrasolar planets:
- 51 Pegasi b (discovered in 1995, by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz)
- HD 209458 b (1999, by David Charbonneau, Gregory W. Henry, and others)
- PSR B1620-26c (1996, by Donald Backer and others)
- OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (2006, by Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork/Robotic Telescope Network, Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, and Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics)
- TrES-1 (2004, by Roi Alonso and others)
- HD 188753 Ab (2005, by Maciej Konacki and others)
- HD 149026 b (2005, by the N2K Consortium)
- Epsilon Eridani b (2000, by Artie Hatzes and others)
- 2M1207b (2004, by Gael Chauvin and others)
The problem with real-life extrasolar planets, unlike those in Star Trek, is that they for the most part have boring or incomprehensible names. I mean, come on, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb? What the hell kind of name is that? Granted, there are a lot of stars out there, and maybe they can't all have names like Epsilon Eridani or 51 Pegasi, but still, can't we do better than HD 209458?