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		jmilloy on July 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cous... The 385 day year is mentioned. What about hours in a day? Do we know that?

unchocked on July 23, 2015 [–]

Wouldn't be able to tell from the data. The yearly cycle produces a partial eclipse of the parent star. A day comes from the planet spinning on its axis and there isn't an actual image of the planet that we could analyse for varying brightness.

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