On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:18:55 -0700 (PDT), "G=EMC^2"
wrote:
Well back in 2008 I read there were 50 Earth size planets 185 about 30%nlarger,and 640 about 2.2 times the size of Earth.Now we have ti Kepler saterlite I would like to know how many it has found in the last 3 years? TreBert
Kepler was launched in March of 2009. As of Sept. 2009, 1,235
planetary candidates circling 997 host stars had been discovered.
That's more than twice the number of the then known exoplanets. Those
results included 68 planetary candidates of Earth-like size and 54
planetary candidates in the Goldilocks Zone of their star.
As of this month, Kepler has found 1,781 planetary candidates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_satellite
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Indelibly yours,
Paine
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