Kepler 10b - First Rocky Planet

NASA Announcement (10 Jan 2011)

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet

• scientific paper

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Kepler Mission

Satellite in search of Earth-sized planets beyond the Solar System

Launch - March, 2009

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Kepler 10 - the star

G type star

Mass = 0.90 solar masses

Radius = 1.06 solar radii

Age greater than 8 x 10⁹ years

Distance = 560 Light-years

Kepler 10b - the planet

orbital period = 0.84 days