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To: C19fan

A planet in the habitable zone could be Venus, Earth or Mars.

So far Keppler isn’t finding many Earth candidates...


12 posted on 02/03/2012 7:49:29 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: desertfreedom765

In all fairness to Kepler, it only sees transiting planets which means their orbit has to be on a plane with the telescope. If you were looking for earth from a similar distance but from above, you wouldn’t find us.

Almost all of these planets are found in tight orbits around small stars. In this case the star is about one 1/3 the size of ours and the orbit of the planet is much closer and shorter. Again, if you were looking for earth from a similar distance, earth would only transit once every 365 days.


15 posted on 02/03/2012 8:00:52 AM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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