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Thursday 13 January 2011

Smallest planet outside solar system

Monitored the spacecraft belonging to the Space Agency and the U.S. aviation «NASA» rocky planet is the smallest planet discovered, until now, outside the solar system.

He was on the planet, the name of «Kepler - 10b», which is the first rocky planet, or similar to the land, and the diameter of 1.4 Earth's diameter.
The «NASA» to «Kepler - 10b» is not available in which the necessities of life.
NASA emphasized that «Kepler - 10b» is located at a distance very close to the axis and away more than twenty times the distance that separates the planet Mercury and the sun, just new planet about 560 light-years from Earth. 

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