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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Aug 2 2009, 01:28 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 10-September 05 Member No.: 493 |
http://nexsci.caltech.edu/missions/KeckSol...l-current.shtml
QUOTE 2009B W. Borucki NASA Ames Key Follow-up Observations of Kepler Targets x HIRESr http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/observing/schedule/index.php Borucki users HIRES 29-31.07.2009, 01-09.09.2009, 3-5.10.2009, 28-29.10.2009 Discovery hot jupiter users about 10 RV-measurements or 20 minut time Keck-HIRES. My forecast conferences NASA on August 6 - present 10-100 new hot transit gas giants planets depending on numbers false planet candidate -------------------- |
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Aug 2 2009, 11:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 131 Joined: 31-May 08 From: San Carlos, California, USA Member No.: 4168 |
Borucki users HIRES 29-31.07.2009, 01-09.09.2009, 3-5.10.2009, 28-29.10.2009 Only one set of those dates (July 29, 30, 31) is in the past. QUOTE Discovery hot jupiter users about 10 RV-measurements or 20 minut time Keck-HIRES. What sort of time allocation does one reserve at Keck? Just from their web page it seems two teams split one night. So would that mean Borucki/Marcy had ~6 hours x 3 days = ~18 hours? Anyway, I'm guessing Borucki/Marcy had to schedule their Keck time long ago before they even knew how many candidates they'd have. So I think correlating reserved Keck time with candidate quantity is specious. Then of course there may be other additional teams confirming Kepler's results with other telescopes. Hard for me to guess. I wasn't expecting any announcements any time soon, so anything more than a brief update is butter to me. |
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