What's interesting is that most of solar systems discovered so far don't look like ours with the planets widely spaced out, instead with these the planets seem to be stacked closer together near their stars.
I don't believe Kepler could detect Earth
I have a lot of sympathy with that: without RV confirmation to get the mass and better stellar properties, is it really that useful to be 99.8% certain there's a planet? Kepler-296 is a good illustration of this: we don't even know which component of the binary the planets orbit. But far better minds than mine will decide :-)
SETI representative on the panel I see.
Quote from: Star One on 04/15/2014 06:42 pmSETI representative on the panel I see.There has been a SETI representative on many of the Kepler announcements. Based on the line of work of the participants it sounds like a habitability/atmospheric type announcement.Sufficed to say it won't be aliens.
Sufficed to say it won't be aliens.