Sen: Is Kepler-452b Really Earthlike?

I recently wrote about the newly discovered exoplanet Kepler-452b. It's bigger than Earth, but it orbits its Sunlike star in the habitable zone, where water could ostensibly exist on the planet's surface. The planet is actually 1.6 times the Earth's diameter, and if I were a betting man, I'd wager it's not Earthlike at all. Given what we think we understand about planets, it's as likely to have a thick atmosphere like Neptune's as one like Earth's. Maybe more likely. But we just don't know. Desp...