New Delhi, India: July 26, 2010 - IR Summary/SAROUL/Space.com - 

Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist, Head of SAROUL (Scientific Advance Research of Universe & Life) had mentioned in his book "Two Big Bangs Created the Universe" (Formed in Eternal Space) in November 2003 that there are earth like planets in the galaxy, and it is now being confirmed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft having Planet-hunting telescope launched in April 2009.

Scientific Advance Research of Universe & Life (SAROUL) is a part of GBA, God Believers Association, which is dedicated to promote Naturism, World Peace & Environment through fighting Global Warming with different suggestions and practical approaches to various countries with an educational view of emphasizing them to honor the Copenhagen Accord so as to check the Global Warming. 

"There could be an uncertainty about the number of Earth like planets but these are very much there in the galaxy," Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist said.

"Whether there are millions, thousands or hundreds or just five planets so far discovered in the galaxy is quite interesting, Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist, said."I have already given in my book that there is earth like planets in the galaxy.

NASA's Kepler spa craft, has not identified more than 100 Earth-like planets in the galaxy as is publicised in the Media. The Planet-hunting telescope, launched in April 2009, in fact, has discovered five such planets beyond the Solar System, but Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist, says, "There are great many earth like planets in the Universe, it is a matter of time to discover a few and communicate with them".

Is it an erroneous report of 140 new planets? Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist, asked.

Most probably, the report of 140 new earth like planets was created in response to a recent videotaped speech Kepler co-investigator Demitar Sasselov gave at a TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference held in July. 

"More than 100 'Earth-like' planets discovered in past few weeks," read the headline of a Wednesday article in the U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper. The Observer, another U.K. paper, also reported the finding.

However, Sasselov was referencing only possible planets among the Kepler data, scientists said.

"What Dimitar presented was 'candidates,'" said David Koch, the mission's deputy principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "These have the apparent signature we are looking for, but then we must perform extensive follow-up observations to eliminate false positives, such as background eclipsing binaries. This requires substantial amounts of ground-based observing which is done primarily in the summer observing season."

In June the Kepler team announced the discovery of 706 planet candidates - objects that preliminarily have the right signature to be alien worlds.

The telescope looks for stars whose light appears to dim periodically, representing the time when a planet passes in front of the star and temporarily blocks some of its light. These findings were detailed in a scientific paper by Kepler's science principal investigator William Borucki, also of NASA Ames.

"In my TED talk I was simply repeating what was already announced by the Kepler team back [on] June 15, 2010 and is in the Borucki et al., paper," Sasselov told SPACE.com.

"So, no new news here — but more to come later in the year!" he said.
Koch confirmed that Kepler's official planet tally is still much lower. "Other than the 5 planets previously published, we have not announced anything else," he said.

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