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NASA'S Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet
ManuDate: Thursday, 13-January-2011, 8:39 AM | Message # 1
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Artist concept of Kepler-10b.
Credit: NASA.

NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is based on more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft from May 2009 to early January 2010.

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Full article/source - http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/rocky_planet.html

 
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