back to article New research cuts Kepler's exoplanet count by one third

A new study has shown that the number of exoplanets – planets outside of our solar system – discovered by NASA's Kepler may be inflated by over a third. The Kepler team's "Table of confirmed planets" (their emphasis) in that spacecraft's slice of the sky now stands at 105. According to the criteria used by NASA's Exoplanet …

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  1. Martin Budden Silver badge
    Joke

    Diversionary tactics.

    French sperm rates have reduced by a third, so now they want us to think about something else reduced by a third.

    Huge space balls are still way more impressive than frog's balls though.

  2. TeeCee Gold badge
    Coat

    NASA's Kepler

    Who wrote the analysis software? McAfee?

    1. ravenviz Silver badge
      Coat

      Re: NASA's Kepler

      No, ex-Shell employees.

  3. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    Doesn't matter

    Even with one-third less planetary candidates, there's still a whole lot more star systems with planets than we previously thought possible.

    So, how about getting those star drives ready ? We got places to go now !

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Is it just me?

    The main article page reports 4 comments, but when I read them, only 3

    Is that a 33% false positive rate?

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