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

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:09:09 -0600
Message-ID: <63197AB396E74FE9A7F5B625E9688070_at_ATARIENGINE2>

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" <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
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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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