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 About 180 articles appeared online after launch, directly about Kepler, or mentioned it in the context of other NASA information. There have been roughly 1800 articles/mentions in the last 30 days, according to Google News. This is only the English language count. If one goes to all languages that Google searches, there have been over 4,000 articles about Kepler or that mention Kepler in the past 30 days. Since launch (March 7 and forward), there have been about 230 articles worldwide.
Sampling of articles:
2009 March 2, In a Lonely Cosmos, a Hunt for Worlds Like Ours. By Dennis Overbye, New York Times. Excerpt: Someday it might be said that this was the beginning of the end of cosmic loneliness. Presently perched on a Delta 2 rocket at Cape Canaveral is a one-ton spacecraft called Kepler. If all goes well, the rocket will lift off about 10:50 Friday evening on a journey that will eventually propel Kepler into orbit around the Sun. There the spacecraftÕs mission will be to discover Earth-like planets in Earth-like places Ñ that is to say, in the not-too-cold, not-too-hot, Goldilocks zones around stars where liquid water can exist. The job, in short, is to find places where life as we know it is possible....
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