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Texas Astronomer To Aid Search For Earth-like Planets 
Space Daily | Sun, Mar 8
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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2009 - University of Texas at Austin astronomer Bill Cochran is one of the leading scientists involved in searching 100,000 nearby stars in our Milky Way galaxy for planets like Earth as part of NASA's Kepler mission.
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