Astronomers discover Kerbin?

[Anton P. Nym]

Astronomers going over data from the Kepler Space Telescope discovered evidence for a solar system much like ours, but smaller. I had more witty observations on the parallels with KSP, but alas they escaped my brain while preparing lunch... so all I got is I hope you enjoy the article.

-- Steve

[-Velocity-]

Thanks for the link. Someone had mentioned this discovery to me, but I had never seen any news on it myself, so I'm glad I finally got to see a story on it. Pretty incredible that it all packs into 1 AU. This system seems too tightly packed and unstable, and if I had to bet, it will be losing some of its planets over the coming eons.

That article is kind lame in that it doesn't mention what the star's characteristics are, unless I totally missed it twice. I looked it up, and here's what I found:

Mass [MSun] 1.14±0.12

Radius [RSun] 1.20±0.10

Age [Gyr] 0.5±0.9

Metallicity [Fe/H] -0.17±0.21

Spectral type N/A

Temperature [K] 5930±320

Visual magnitude N/A

So it's a young system, which is to be expected considering how tightly packed and unstable its planetary system most likely is. You won't see something like that around an old star...