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Old October 8th 09, 01:52 AM posted to sci.astro
Greg Hennessy[_2_]
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Default Kepler Mission: why no near planets yet ?

On 2009-10-07, ivk wrote:
There were no reports of any new extrasolar planets found in about 5
months of Kepler's operations; does it mean that they did not find any
planet with a period 1.5 months and at least Earth size (or
bigger) ?


No, it does not mean that.

They are surely taking and reducing data, and waiting to understand
things before publishing.

I expect a flurry of results next January at the AAS meeting.