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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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Same here. I've begun to realise that if you don't have anything to report, don't tease us.
Got angered at CoRoT for teasing everyone with "hints of a 1.7 Earth-radius transiting planet" for a couple years before CoRoT-7b was announced. Anagrams, cryptic information, (and sometimes, as with CoRoT-2 b, press releases) just serve to raise public hopes beyond that which can be satisfied by what the piece of news actually is. This will backfire some, causing some animosity toward the mission. Anyone remember that? CoRoT-2 b's announcement? "Oh you guys are going to love this, wait for it... wait for it... wait for it.... history will be made... OH MY GOSH!!! We found a HOT JUPIER!! OMG! Can you believe that?" NASA's announcement of the SWEEPS planets back in October of 2006 was almost as bad. My point is that if you sit on data, make sure it's all good, and then release it out of nowhere, everyone's surprised, and pleasantly excited, and we all love the mission that much more. It's a lot better than a CoRoT-2 style let-down. Edit: Besides, if the data is scheduled for a Jun 18 download, what on Earth (har har) is there to make an anagram about anyway? -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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... if the data is scheduled for a Jun 18 download, what ... is there to make an anagram about anyway? Ten days worth of calibration data, which could easily have picked up an exoearth or two if they are as common as has been assumed. For those looking for substance, there is a new (well, two days old) Project Managers Update out. Edit: I'd better mention that it would be impossible to confirm said planets if they were in anything remotely resembling a habitable zone. Merely that their transits would be present. Also, I believe that if it's something you're not suppose to come right out and say, whatever it is, then best not to mention it at all. |
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