Kepler Mission Discovers Trove of Extrasolar Planet Candidates

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Feb 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011eostr..92...54s&link_type=abstract

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 92, Issue 7, p. 54-54

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Planetary Sciences: Astrobiology: Formation Of Stars And Planets

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NASA's Kepler discovery mission is collecting more than just pennies from heaven. Results from the first 4 months of science operations of the Kepler space telescope, announced on 2 February, include the discovery of 1235 candidate planets orbiting 997 stars in a small portion of the Milky Way galaxy examined by the telescope. Follow-up observations likely could confirm about 80% of the candidates as actual planets rather than false positives, according to researchers. This new trove of possible exoplanets could greatly expand the number of known planets outside of our solar system.

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