The Exoplanet competition to end all exoplanet competitions is back for another year. ExoCup2019 will pit 32 exoplanets against each other until one is named the grand champion.
The Table:
The Selection Process:
Exocaster, Hugh Osborn, used ADS to search for the most used exoplanets in the literature from the past year. The top 24 planets were selected, where no two planets could be from the same planetary system.
The final 8 planets were selected as wildcard entries by the Exocast team to balance out the pool and include some crowd favorites or new/controversial worlds.
The Exoplanet Competitors:
Exoplanet Fact Cards:
You can find a link to the French version of the cards here.