Twin Earth Discovered, KOI 172.02, Most Earth-Like Planet Yet Found

Written By Unknown on Thursday, 10 January 2013 | 23:43

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The many Earth-like world nonetheless found has only been detected by a Kepler space probe. The newly detected exoplanet is indeed about 1.5 times bigger than Earth, so it’s famous as a ‘super-Earth’. The planet, KOI (Kepler Object of Interest) 172.02, is following an circuit that is good within a habitable section of a star that is rather identical to a Earth. This leaves a probability that a world could underline glass H2O and potentially oceans on a surface.

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KOI 172.02 orbits during a stretch of around 0.75 astronomical units from a star, definition that it is about 3/4 a stretch from a star that a Earth is from

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