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By Eryn Brown / The Bulletin
February 25, 2013
LOS ANGELES — NASA scientists have discovered a faraway planet that’s smaller than Mercury — far tinier than they expected they could find when they launched the Kepler space telescope nearly four years ago.
The hot, rocky world orbits a sun-like star....