The point is not to find any particular planet — hold off on the covered-wagon spaceships — but to find out just how rare planets like Earth are in the cosmos.
Because the Kepler stars are all so far away — hundreds or thousands of light-years — and the planets we want to find are so small, astronomers will never be quite completely sure what any particular planet is made of or whether anything can or does live there.
Use it to find a particular star, planet or constellation.
I'm the type of person who occasionally likes to consider of all the things that somehow coalesced so that I, this particular me, could happen to be born into this particular time on this particular planet, and the thing is, Boston, you play a small part in that story.
Nothing matters, you're just taking a look at how they are doing things on this particular patch of this particular planet right now.
The cornerstone of modern alternative rock and, since their 2004 reunion, arguably the most formidable live band on this particular planet of sound.
As George sees it, his job is to question and observe until he fully understands the workings of his own particular planet -- this strip of sand and gravel 25 miles off the coast of North America.
