{"id":647544,"date":"2010-01-29T06:21:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5459448"},"modified":"2010-01-29T06:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T11:21:23","slug":"earths-twin-is-on-the-cusp-of-being-discovered-says-dome-headed-clever-guy-kepler-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/647544","title":{"rendered":"Earth’s Twin is on the Cusp of Being Discovered, Says Dome-Headed Clever Guy [Kepler Spacecraft]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a sucker for Battlestar Galactica<\/a> (while these days I merely mix my sci-fi metaphors. Boldly.) Anyway, Earth’s twin is due to be discovered this year – says Michael Mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exciting deed will not be done by a behemoth of a spaceship, helmed by a man with bad skin, bad glasses but still unutterably sexy, but by the Kepler spacecraft<\/a>. Professor Mayor, an astronomer at Geneva University, was speaking at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence anniversary, at London’s Royal Society. Whether there’ll be a spin-off miniseries after the planet is discovered, however, remains to be seen. [Newser<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a sucker for Battlestar Galactica (while these days I merely mix my sci-fi metaphors. Boldly.) Anyway, Earth’s twin is due to be discovered this year – says Michael Mayor. The exciting deed will not be done by a behemoth of a spaceship, helmed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Isg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}