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So you do a press release in April announcing the fact you've discovered 10 planets, however you don't get around to actually releasing papers for a while.

In the meantime, another team comes along and discovers an object, puts a paper on the arXiv in which they point out:

We note that a similar object has been announced by the SuperWASP team (WASP-11b), but details (such as identification) are unavailable as yet.

Oh dear.

Wonder if any of the remaining unpublished WASP planets will also get scooped...

(The SuperWASP paper is now up on the EPE here - pdf format)

Yeah I was rather bothered by this as well.

When you make a press release, have papers already ready to go...

The lack of data about the WASP stars has been something that's bothered me for a while.

What I find interesting is that with as many stars as there are, two organisations independently discover a transiting planet. It isn't the first time, one of the XO planets was a WASP candidate a while back.