{"id":108,"date":"2009-03-08T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/08\/good-luck-to-kepler\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T17:19:03","slug":"good-luck-to-kepler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/08\/good-luck-to-kepler\/","title":{"rendered":"Good luck to Kepler!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/07\/science\/space\/07kepler.html?ref=science\">successfully launched <\/a>the<a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/\"> Kepler satellite<\/a>, which will spend 3-4 years surveying nearby stars to look for Earthlike planets.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve discovered lots of giant planets so far, but we know relatively little about how common smaller planets like ours are.\u00a0 Assuming that life elsewhere is most likely to have evolved in environments similar to our own (a reasonable guess, although it&#8217;s important to bear in mind that we don&#8217;t really know it&#8217;s right), this is obviously a really important piece of information to acquire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA successfully launched the Kepler satellite, which will spend 3-4 years surveying nearby stars to look for Earthlike planets.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve discovered lots of giant planets so far, but we know relatively little about how common smaller planets like ours are.\u00a0 Assuming that life elsewhere is most likely to have evolved in environments similar to our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/08\/good-luck-to-kepler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good luck to Kepler!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}