According to Dennis Overbye's article in Wednesday's NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/science/space/25planetcnd.html?hp
According to models of planet formation developed by Dr. Sasselov and his colleagues, such a planet should be about half again as large as the Earth and be composed of rock and water, what the astronomers now call a “super Earth.”
The most exciting part of the new find, Dr. Sasselov said, is that it “basically tells you these kinds of planets are very common.” Because they could stay geologically active for billions and billion of years, Dr. Sasselov said he suspects that such planets could be even more congenial for life than the Earth. NASA’s coming Kepler mission, he added, would probably find hundreds of these super Earths.
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