Yet somehow it manages to fund a lavish range of planet-wrecking programmes.
"What exists is an incredibly random, chaotic, wild range of planets," said Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University, also a veteran planet hunter who is not a member of the Kepler team.
To apply on a wider range of planets including icy bodies, scaling laws based on non-Newtonian rheology will be required.
There will be more vehicles, a range of planets to explore and eliminate enemies on.
"We thought we understood the mass ranges of planets of other stars.
These observations discovered the immense topographic range of the planet (30 km), the strong response of the atmosphere and its embedded ionosphere to suspended dust, and the day-to-day stability of the ionosphere (Cain et al. 1972, 1973; Kliore 1973).
If you can give written proof that you are injured or that you must move out of range of a Planet Fitness, then you may be able to have the fees waived.
And within the range of detectable planets, lower-mass bodies are exponentially more common than higher-mass ones.
Still, Boss finds the logic convincing: "They seem to have found what I would call the top end of the range of terrestrial-type planets.
The range and sophistication of planet-hunting techniques, along with the number of known exoplanets, will only increase in the coming years.
Bigger than Jesus has been the headline, and the news that Carl Linnaeus has been judged the most influential person on Wikipedia could be seen as the final triumph of the Enlightenment: religion routed by a Swedish scientist who established how we name the species that make up the wondrous range of life on our planet.
