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Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet
By ENN"E# $%NN&Associated 'ress (riter A' ) Wednesday, April 22
*A+"EL,& England ) n the search for Earth)li-e planets& astronomers .eroed in on t/o places that loo-a/fully familiar to home0 1ne is close to the right si.e0 +he other is in the right place0 Europeanresearchers said they not only found the smallest e2oplanet ever& called 3liese 456 e& but reali.ed that aneighboring planet discovered earlier& 3liese 456 d& /as in the prime habitable .one for potential life0
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8+he *oly 3rail of current e2oplanet research is the detection of a roc-y& Earth)li-e planet in the9habitable .one&98 said Michel Mayor& an astrophysicist at 3eneva %niversity in S/it.erland0
An American e2pert called the discovery of the tiny planet 8e2traordinary08
3liese 456 e is only 60 times the si.e of Earth ; /hile previous planets found outside our solar systemare closer to the si.e of massive upiter& /hich NASA says could s/allo/ more than 6&
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Scientists also discovered that the orbit of planet 3liese 456 d& /hich /as found in =
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