This is the top item on a list of Kepler "hits" waiting
to be verified by ground-based telescopes. The list is
roughly 700 "hits" long and we can expect a minimum
of 500 to be confirmed.
There are more hits in the data being teased out,
so we can expect a flood of planets to be slowly confirmed
and dribbled out. Planet-O-Rama!
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Meteorites USA" <e...@meteoritesusa.com>
To: "Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:28 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First
RockyPlanet
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-007&cid=release_2011-007&msource=11007&tr=y&auid=7605855
Not in the habitable zone, and 20 times closer to the Kepler 10 star
than Mercury is to our Sun, but it is 1.4 times the size of Earth
which is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.
Way cool!
Regards,
Eric
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