Thursday, 23 August 2012

41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View

Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems                                                          Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems. These results may increase the number of Kepler’s confirmed planets by more than 50 percent: to 116 planets hosted in 67 systems, over half of which contain more than one planet. The papers are currently under scientific peer-review.

Nineteen of the newly validated planetary systems have two closely spaced transiting planets and one system has three. Five of the systems are common to both of these independent studies.


 source: http://1.usa.gov/15DS5
41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View

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