NASA News: K2 Makes First Exoplanet Find
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by ajamyajax
December 18, 2014
RELEASE 14-335"NASA’s Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission"
"The newly confirmed planet, HIP 116454b, is 2.5 times the diameter of Earth and follows a close, nine-day orbit around a star that is smaller and cooler than our sun, making the planet too hot for life as we know it."
-- Congrats to Andrew and EVERYONE involved in K2.
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by Dolorous_Edd
Link to the paper
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~avanderb/hip116454b.pdf
HIP 116454b is EPIC 60021410
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by andrew418
Thanks! I'm super excited.
Andrew
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by zoo3hans
Interesting reading. It seems K2 has a bright future!
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Congratulation Andrew!
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