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Sep 24 2005, 04:23 PM
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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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Aug 17 2009, 03:52 PM
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Also, though, as the planet/moon gets farther from the star, you might just get two or three separate transits.... what would Jupiter+Callisto or Saturn+Titan look like 200 light years away? Do they resolve as separate transits? Well, I've read that for a distant observer, a Jupiter transit would have a duration of 30 hours, a Saturn transit about 40 hours... Exo-moons could be detected with more accurate detectors, , a Planet-Moon system would have a characteristic transit timing variation, for instance a Jupiter-Europa system would have a variation in the order of 10 seconds, a Saturn-Titan system in the order of 30 seconds... Ring system might be easier to detect |
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