[meteorite-list] NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First RockyPlanet
From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:09:01 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <f12a7c58a9a6c3d1f5487ec71fd95503.squirrel_at_webmail.lpl.arizona.edu> Note that this new planet has a density of about 8, so not really terrestrial as such, but more a VERY large iron! Larry at the AAS conference > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Meteorites USA" <eric at meteoritesusa.com> > To: "Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at 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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Mon 10 Jan 2011 07:09:01 PM PST |
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