Discoveries using the telescopes on Mauna Kea

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Originally posted by TomK

The known population of the solar system keeps growing. Recent observations on telescopes including the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea have discovered some previously unknown trans-Neptunian objects (those beyond the orbit of Neptune). This is important as it helps narrow down the search for the proposed "planet 9", a large planet that is thought to exist about 200 times farther from the sun than the Earth.

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-ninth-plane...stant.html

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With all the OT trolling going on, we seem to have gotten off track and I'm not going to wade through all of the nonsense in order to find the few on topic posts so I'll ask a question of Tom:

I heard on the radio the other day about an exoplanet that was discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri in the "Goldilocks zone" (and thus possibly somewhat earth like). This is exciting news as it is literally in the lot next door in terms of stars. Are any of the local observatories involed in studying this one?

Me ka ha`aha`a,
Mike