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Old October 8th 09, 12:18 AM posted to sci.astro
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Default Kepler Mission: why no near planets yet ?

I am still looking for somebody to answer the original question Let
me try to formalize it.

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) ? Or it is just that they are waiting for some other
confirmations, in addition to simple occlusions that are obeservable
from Kepler ?