CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (AbP) - Citing flawed statistical analysis and observational oversight, humiliated NASA researchers at Cape Canaveral have admitted that an Earth-like planet
—believed to be in the "habitable zone" around a star similar to our own sun
—was in fact just Earth. Despite earlier proclamations that the planet
—initially named Kepler 22-b
—was approximately 2.4 times bigger than Earth and existed some 600 light years away, further data beamed back by The Kepler space telescope has revealed the sphere's identity to be that of our own planet. "We feel really stupid about this," said lead Kepler investigator William Borucki. "All the data seemed to check out; there were no indicators that our wavelengths were in anyway corrupted. It's just... gosh... I feel so darn ridiculous."
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