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The Kepler Mission is designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in the habitable zone.

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  1. (Cont. 2 of 2) and Joe Twicken at

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  2. Join planet hunter in 10-mins to discuss the discovery of Earth's bigger, older cousin Kepler-452b

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    25 jul.

    Tonight exoplanet experts/ team talk the hunt for Earth 2 on Slooh! .

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    "This is the first example of a small, possibly rocky planet in the habitable zone of a star like our own," says

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  5. WOW! Thx for all the great qs on today! Stay tuned for more mission news!

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  6. 1400 light years!

  7. We refer to 452b as elder cousin because the star and planet are 1.5 billion years older than Sun and Earth.

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  8. 3.5 years was believed to be time to detect small planets in habitable zone.

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    Our successor is named

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    We demand very high confidence level for confirmation; requires observing from ground; Cygnus visible in summer only.

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    Fixed for first 4 years. Now changing for K2

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  12. is in our Milky Way Galaxy about 1,400 light years from us.

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    Don't know for sure, but it's possible planet is entering runaway greenhouse phase. See:

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  14. Merci beaucoup! :)

  15. It is unlikely to be tidally locked in such a long period orbit.

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  16. In astronomer-speak, "A" refers to the star.

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  17. Exoplanet discovery is large team effort. Bill Borucki first conceived of Kepler and proposed the mission to .

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  18. These are really hard to find (& we've found 11 other around M & K stars) so it means 15-25% of stars have such.

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    If my Mom asks, it's named after her ;) But these boring names help us catalog them efficiently for now.

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