{"id":10564,"date":"2012-01-11T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/01\/11\/three-smallest-planets-yet-dis\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:43:00","slug":"three-smallest-planets-yet-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/three-smallest-planets-yet-dis\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Smallest Planets Yet Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; outside our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Kepler has discoverd theree planets around the star KOI-961, and they are a mere 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times the radius of Earth, rocky like the earth, but alas, they are too close to the star so there can&#8217;t be any liquid water on them.  But still, there are hardly any rocky exoplanets known, and the small ones are hard to find.<\/p>\n<p>And the possibility of life being on them is, well, just have a look:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EQG3I5efwWo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2012-009&#038;cid=release_2012-009\">Here&#8217;s the NASA press release on this new finding.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; outside our solar system. Kepler has discoverd theree planets around the star KOI-961, and they are a mere 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times the radius of Earth, rocky like the earth, but alas, they are too close to the star so there can&#8217;t be any liquid water on them. But still, there are hardly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/three-smallest-planets-yet-dis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Smallest Planets Yet Discovered<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Ko","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}