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HAT-P-11 is in the constellation Cygnus, which puts in it the field of view of NASA's upcoming Kepler spacecraft. Kepler will search for extrasolar planets using the same transit technique pioneered by ground-based telescopes. This mission potentially could detect the first Earth-like world orbiting a distant star.
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You quoted this statement. From what i read, whoever wrote this expects this second planet to be something interesting, or he's just overjoyed about every exoplanet found in the universe (is it you, Timb, who quoted this?
). What is all the fuss with this? Are there any indications that this would not be a M_jup=3,5 orbiting 6AU from the parent star or something along those lines?