Bill Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA Ames Research Centre, said: “We have now got good planet confirmation with Kepler 22b.

美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心的开普勒项目负责人比尔•伯鲁奇说：“我们现在已经证实‘开普勒22b’适合居住。”

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“If Kepler is successful it will be NASA’s most boring operation,” says David Koch, an astronomer at NASA Ames Research Centre, which runs the Kepler project.

如果开普勒号获得成功，那么对它的操作将是NASA最无趣的工作。

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“If Kepler is successful it will be NASA’s most boring operation, ” says David Koch, an astronomer at NASA Ames Research Centre, which runs the Kepler project.

如果开普勒号获得成功，那么对它的操作将是NASA最无趣的工作。

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Jack Lissauer, of NASA's Ames Research Centre, in California, and his team, have not only confirmed the existence of the six planets, they have worked out their orbital periods, diameters and, in all but one case, their masses.

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