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NASA Announces New Planet, But What Happened To Pluto?


Posted on Dec 06, 2011 @ 10:30AM - Add a comment

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

After shunning Pluto and downgrading its classification, NASA has rebounded and announced a celebrity just outside our solar system by revealing the discovery of a new planet called Kepler-22b.

Scientists are so excited about their new find that they are even calling it the 'Second Earth,' as it orbits close enough to its sun to potentially support life.

After shunning Pluto and downgrading its classification, NASA has rebounded and announced a celebrity just outside our solar system by revealing the discovery of a new planet called Kepler-22b.

Scientists are so excited about their new find that they are even calling it the 'Second Earth,' as it orbits close enough to its sun to potentially support life.

Located 600 light years away (one light year equals 600 trillion miles), NASA will have to make do with a long distance relationship with Kepler-22b, which is 2.4 times the radius of Earth.

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