Kepler Mission |
Kepler Mission |
Sep 24 2005, 04:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
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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Mar 8 2009, 03:34 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 30-January 05 Member No.: 162 |
It would not be confirmable by the 3 observation criteria, but it would still be interesting to review Kepler light curve data for brightenings possibly due to equivalents of Kreutz sun grazers. (IIRC, some Kreutz sun grazers have been visually observed in daytime near the sun, implying a summed magnitude increase greater than the expected decrease in magnitude due to a planetary type stellar transit)
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