NASA: Kepler discovers its first rocky planet
(Video by NASA)
Here's some cool government work:
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.
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| January 10, 2011; 3:10 PM ET
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Very cool, probably not really the first rocky extrasolar planet found though. These Pulsar Planets were discovered in 1990:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_1257%2B12
Posted by: Heathenish | January 11, 2011 12:57 PM | Report abuse
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