<i>KEPLER</i>'S FIRST ROCKY PLANET: KEPLER-10b
<i>KEPLER</i>'S FIRST ROCKY PLANET: KEPLER-10b
NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that goal: the discovery of its first rocky planet, Kepler-10b. Two distinct sets of transit events were detected: 1) a 152 …