Tomorrow's Kepler Mission Announcement

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So what do we think this big announcement on NASA's Kepler mission might be?

Earth mass planet. Regular, stable appearing multiple planet system. More systems have planetary mass objects than don't.

I suspect it will be data suggesting near earth mass objects with in habitable zones in multiple systems.

At worst, it will be a verification of the hasty announcement of the HD10180 system made right after NASA called their press announcement yesterday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11070991

guess everyone has heard this joke, but just in case........seti receives an unmistakable message from deep space source. after months of attempts to decode, the message is finally read: "send more chuck berry".

you see, the first probe to leave our solar system had an lp attached and one of the tracks was a chuck berry song along with greetings from many wor...............ok......sorry

If this proves out, one implication is that it blows our current theories of planetary formation right out of the water - the standard model doesn't allow for that many Neptune-mass planets that close to a G-class star...

The Kepler 9 announcement was pretty lack-luster. A pair of Saturn-mass objects in resonance and a near earth-mass, all of which way too close to the primary. Not to mention the 700pc distance.

It was mostly just a 'look we can find things' type of announcement. The HD 10180 info is much more impressive.