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

Meteorites USA eric at meteoritesusa.com
Mon Jan 10 14:28:32 EST 2011


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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