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Title: Mass, Density, and Formation Constraints in the Compact, Sub-Earth Kepler-444 System including Two Mars-Mass Planets
Author: Sean M. Mills, Daniel C. Fabrycky

Kepler-444 is a five planet system around a host-star approximately 11 billion years old. The five transiting planets all have sub-Earth radii and are in a compact configuration with orbital periods between 3 and 10 days. Here we present a transit-timing analysis of the system using the full Kepler data set in order to determine the masses of the planets. Two planets, Kepler-444 d (M_d=0.036^{+0.065}_{-0.020} earth masses) and Kepler-444 e (M_e=0.034^{+0.059}_{-0.019} earth masses), have confidently detected masses due to their proximity to resonance which creates transit timing variations. The mass ratio of these planets combined with the magnitude of possible star-planet tidal effects suggests that smooth disk migration over a significant distance is unlikely to have brought the system to its currently observed orbital architecture without significant post-formation perturbations.

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Kepler telescope identifies ancient solar system

An ancient solar system similar to our own has been discovered by scientists.
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Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin'

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