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 9 2015, 12:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 27-September 10 Member No.: 5458 |
The point wouldn't be to find new objects. The point was to look at known objects so that we could get a better understanding of the mass-radius of <1.6RE bodies. If we could view distant transits of objects that otherwise have a pretty good estimated mass already, it would give a little in the way of a control for the mass-radius relationship that is being disputed among scientists.
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