Dr Geoffrey Marcy, from the University of California Berkeley, said that Kepler 10b was' a bridge between the gas giant planets we've been finding and the Earth itself '.

加州大学伯克利分校的马西·杰弗里教授说，开普勒10是我们发现的气体星球与地球的桥梁。

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"Make no mistake about it, " said Geoffrey Marcy of San Francisco State University, who has helped find nine of the 12 planets discovered since 1995.

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Renowned planet hunters Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler made the dramatic announcement last week that they had seen a dimming in the light coming from HD 209458 and said it was caused by a planet passing in front of the star.

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