NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by throwaway_yy2Di on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:51PM (#9936945)

To help out anyone trying to search for stuff,

* This exoplanet is now "Kepler-452b" (kepler_name),

* In the "Kepler Object of Interest" catalog, it's KOI "K07016.01" (kepoi_name),

* Its star is both K07016 and Kepler ID 8311864 (kepid),

* In the broader 2MASS sky survey, the star has the id "J19440088+4416392"

Sources (catalog search engines),

http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/TblView/nph...

https://archive.stsci.edu/kepler/kic10/search.php

(edit): Here's a mirror of the Kepler catalog entries -- KIC for the star, KOI for the planet:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/deef2bd542224f3...

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by iso8000 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:55PM (#9938085)

I really like comments that are made to provide some provenance to a news piece. These facts/references should arguably should have been in the text of the article. Double kudos for providing provenance for your provenance.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by lemue on Thursday July 23, 2015 @04:28PM (#9938288)

Thanks, awesome comment!

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by mlekhtman on Friday July 24, 2015 @03:29AM (#9940555)

Awesome comment, saved me a lot of time. Thanks!

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