American Astronomical Society 215th meeting

The size of Kepler's first five planet discoveries as compared with Jupiter and Earth. NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond the Solar System. Kepler's high sensitivity to both small and large planets enabled the discovery of the exoplanets, named Kepler-4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b.

The 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) took place in Washington, D.C., Jan. 3 to Jan. 7, 2010. It is one of the largest astronomy meetings ever to take place as 3,500 astronomers and researchers were expected to attend and give more than 2,200 scientific presentations. The meeting was actually billed as the "largest Astronomy meeting in the universe". An array of discoveries were announced, along with new views of the universe that we inhabit; such as quiet planets like Earth - where life could develop are probably plentiful, even though an abundance of cosmic hurdles exist - such as experienced by our own planet in the past.[1][2][3]

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  2. ^ "Cosmic Coverage of the 215th AAS Meeting". Space.com. 7 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-11.
  3. ^ "Astronomers: We could find Earth-like planets soon". China Daily. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-11.