Kepler's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b
NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that goal: the discovery of its first rocky planet, Kepler-10b. Two distinct sets of transit events were...
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IOP Publishing,
2012-10-18T18:18:23Z.
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