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This NASA Discovery mission is to be launched in June 2008 and will search for Earth-size and smaller planets. Launch was originally scheduled in 2007 but delayed by 8 months due to "funding constraints".
Here's the official web site: http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/ |
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Yes, the radial velocity method can determine the eccentricity...
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Yes, the radial velocity method can determine the eccentricity... Using spectroscopy/doppler shift measurements? That's possible for Earth-sized planets? Even if there's a Jupiter-sized planet in the same system(messing things up)? Wow. I think I'll have to try to crunch some numbers on that, to get my head around it. The more I think about it, the more amazing the process of making those measurements, and disentangling them, becomes. Thanks. |
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