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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on June 16, 2010, 11:57:38 am

Title: Kepler may have detected over 750 planets in 43 days
Post by: Nemesis on June 16, 2010, 11:57:38 am

Link to full article (http://www.universetoday.com/2010/06/15/new-worlds-to-explore-kepler-spacecraft-finds-750-exoplanet-candidates/)

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The Kepler spacecraft has found over 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, and that is just from data collected in the first 43 days of the spacecraft's observations. "This is the biggest release of candidate planets that has ever happened," said William Borucki, Kepler's lead scientist. "The number of candidate planets is actually greater than all the planets that have been discovered in the last 15 years."