{"id":11977,"date":"2009-02-27T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2009-02-27T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T16:23:50","slug":"easy-going-rocky-planet-orbiting-sun-like-star-seeks-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/easy-going-rocky-planet-orbiting-sun-like-star-seeks-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy-going Rocky Planet Orbiting Sun-Like Star Seeks Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is preparing for another launch, on Thursday, March 5. The Kepler spacecraft will be the first to look for Earth-like planets: particularly &#8220;rocky planets that orbit sun-like stars in a warm zone where liquid water could be maintained on the surface,&#8221;\u0412\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/kepler\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA reports<\/a>.\u0412\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kepler will spend 3.5 years watching one area of space for Earth-like objects. While this may seem like a long time to watch one patch of space, there are over 100,000 stars that resemble the Sun, and therefore may have an Earth-like planet orbiting it.\u0412\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The launch will take place at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Fl. The Cape area best known for being a launch site and for the town&#8217;s high divorce rate. Its area code was changed to &#8220;321&#8221; and, while most say this is in reference to the number of launches from the station, it could also be a reference to how long it takes before a spouse walks out the door and heads for greener pastures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is preparing for another launch, on Thursday, March 5. The Kepler spacecraft will be the first to look for Earth-like planets: particularly &#8220;rocky planets that orbit sun-like stars in a warm zone where liquid water could be maintained on the surface,&#8221;\u0412\u00a0NASA reports.\u0412\u00a0 Kepler will spend 3.5 years watching one area of space for Earth-like &#8230; <a title=\"Easy-going Rocky Planet Orbiting Sun-Like Star Seeks Same\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/easy-going-rocky-planet-orbiting-sun-like-star-seeks-same\/\" aria-label=\"More on Easy-going Rocky Planet Orbiting Sun-Like Star Seeks Same\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,1170,52,1167,1168,1169,117],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}