{"id":1538,"date":"2013-04-19T19:42:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2020-10-22T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:57:22","slug":"uwab-researcher-eric-agol-discovers-most-earth-like-exoplanet-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/19\/uwab-researcher-eric-agol-discovers-most-earth-like-exoplanet-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"UWAB Researcher Eric Agol Discovers Most Earth-like Exoplanet to Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the latest discovery from the <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/\">Kepler Space Telescope<\/a>, UW astronomer Eric Agol has identified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/18\/astronomers-discover-five-planet-system-with-most-earthlike-exoplanet-yet\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=astronomers-discover-five-planet-system-with-most-earthlike-exoplanet-yet&amp;utm_source=UW+News+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=ca2e78b9f4-Weekly+Roundup&amp;utm_medium=email\">Kepler-62f<\/a>: an exoplanet in its star&#8217;s habitable zone, with a radius only 40% larger than Earth\u2014&nbsp;making it the smallest potentially habitable exoplanet found to date. Kepler-62f has an orbital period of 267 days, and belongs to a multi-planet system orbiting&nbsp;a K2 dwarf star roughly 1200 light years from Earth. Although Kepler&#8217;s mass and density have not been measured, it is likely to have a rocky composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the UW News release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/18\/astronomers-discover-five-planet-system-with-most-earthlike-exoplanet-yet\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=astronomers-discover-five-planet-system-with-most-earthlike-exoplanet-yet&amp;utm_source=UW+News+Su\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest discovery from the Kepler Space Telescope, UW astronomer Eric Agol has identified Kepler-62f: an exoplanet in its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}