Kepler Mission likely to confirm Milky Way hosts 100 million habitable planets

[Omaroo]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/kepler-mission-likely-to-confirm-milk-way-hosts-100-million-habitable-planets/story-e6frfro0-1225896871051

Interesting...

[renormalised]

Very interesting article, but I think it's a little premature for them to be announcing a figure on the numbers of terrestrial worlds...or more specifically Earth like planets...that they'll find. That should wait until they have a better grip on just how many they do find, and from more than just one survey mission like Kepler. Although, the results are still very important in our understanding of what's out there.

6 weeks....Kepler's been up longer than that. Anyone remember when it was launched???. I think it was in March, wasn't it??

[michaellxv]

It's been up for a year. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html

Looks like they recently released the first 43 days (6 weeks) of data which could be where the report came from.

[renormalised]

Thanks Michael...I knew it'd been up for awhile...haven't kept up with the mission. Sounds like that what it was...the release of the first 6 weeks worth of data.

[OICURMT]

Launch date 2009-03-07, 03:49:57.465 UTC

[OneOfOne]

I keep my eye on the current tally and check it out every few weeks at:

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm

The stats will take a huge leap when they add these findings