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Search for Earth’s twin shows promise

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / January 8, 2013

The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Francois Fressin, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), presented the new analysis of Kepler data that shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury.

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