[meteorite-list] NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:28:32 -0800
Message-ID: <4D2B5DE0.8030208_at_meteoritesusa.com>

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
Received on Mon 10 Jan 2011 02:28:32 PM PST