Here's a recent Planetary Society podcast interview with the Kepler principal investigator, Bill Borucki: http://planetary.org/radio/show/00000400/ http://plane

Here's a recent Planetary Society podcast interview with the Kepler principal investigator, Bill Borucki: http://planetary.org/radio/show/00000400/ http://planetary.org/radio/show/00000400/ He talks about the discovery of those hundreds of candidate planets.