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imran
post 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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- imran   Kepler Mission   Sep 24 2005, 04:23 PM
- - Explorer1   Meanwhile, from the primary mission, another unexp...   Jun 4 2014, 04:21 AM
- - Gerald   Since people always want to know, and I didn't...   Jun 4 2014, 01:52 PM
|- - AndyG   Surface gravity is linearly proportional to densit...   Jun 4 2014, 05:27 PM
- - brellis   space dot com article on binary exo-earths - http:...   Nov 21 2014, 08:15 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Yes, I guess, in that they would block more light ...   Nov 21 2014, 08:48 PM
- - Jackbauer   http://spaceref.com/exoplanets/reborn-kepl...ew-mi...   Dec 18 2014, 04:51 PM
|- - JRehling   I'm delighted and surprised that Kepler has be...   Dec 19 2014, 06:13 PM
- - Jackbauer   http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nas...mall-...   Jan 6 2015, 09:55 PM
- - brellis   Our galaxy may host billions of planets where liqu...   Mar 19 2015, 01:49 PM
- - Explorer1   Telecon tomorrow morning: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov...   Jul 22 2015, 09:21 PM
|- - JRehling   There's speculation that today's announcem...   Jul 23 2015, 03:35 PM
- - Explorer1   Starting in a few minutes: almost 50,000 viewing n...   Jul 23 2015, 03:58 PM
|- - JRehling   The real significance here is not the particular d...   Jul 23 2015, 04:58 PM
- - dvandorn   Well -- the other big thing about this new discove...   Jul 23 2015, 05:35 PM
|- - JRehling   Generally speaking, most Kepler discoveries are go...   Jul 23 2015, 06:04 PM
- - Mongo   I dunno. 1.6 Earth radii is marginal for Earth-lik...   Jul 23 2015, 10:04 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Mongo @ Jul 23 2015, 03:04 PM) 1.6...   Jul 23 2015, 10:43 PM
|- - hendric   QUOTE (JRehling @ Jul 23 2015, 05:43 PM) ...   Jul 24 2015, 09:32 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (hendric @ Jul 24 2015, 04:32 PM) ....   Jul 24 2015, 10:05 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Jul 24 2015, 03:05...   Jul 27 2015, 08:29 PM
- - JohnVV   just for your viewing pleasure ( if one thinks it...   Jul 30 2015, 07:34 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (JohnVV @ Jul 30 2015, 12:34 PM) no...   Aug 4 2015, 05:06 PM
- - ZLD   Very pleasant John. Your video did pop a questio...   Jul 30 2015, 08:46 PM
- - dtolman   Looks like Kepler is going to have its own Pluto o...   Aug 1 2015, 12:23 PM
- - algorithm   Judging by the number of other observations being ...   Aug 1 2015, 07:19 PM
- - JohnVV   Exoplanets ....... a few data points will be very ...   Aug 4 2015, 06:21 PM
|- - JRehling   The prospects of measuring the mass of "earth...   Aug 4 2015, 07:54 PM
- - dvandorn   In re the question as to whether a 1.6x Earth mass...   Aug 5 2015, 02:53 PM
|- - JRehling   Other Doug, it certainly seems possible for a rock...   Aug 5 2015, 08:16 PM
- - JohnVV   it is rather unlikely it is a water and plant worl...   Aug 5 2015, 07:52 PM
- - dvandorn   Very, very good points, JRehling. You're abso...   Aug 5 2015, 08:45 PM
- - Mongo   A paper with interesting implications is out on ar...   Aug 6 2015, 01:05 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Mongo @ Aug 5 2015, 06:05 PM) To m...   Aug 6 2015, 06:36 PM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 6 2015, 07:36 PM) T...   Aug 7 2015, 02:49 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Mongo @ Aug 7 2015, 07:49 AM) From...   Aug 7 2015, 06:13 PM
- - Mongo   Is Kepler 452b a Rocky Planet or Not? A couple of...   Aug 7 2015, 04:39 PM
- - ZLD   Thats a lot of great information mongo. Depending ...   Aug 7 2015, 10:08 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (ZLD @ Aug 7 2015, 03:08 PM) Thats ...   Aug 8 2015, 04:16 AM
- - Explorer1   I remember Deep Impact had an extended mission tha...   Aug 8 2015, 04:25 AM
- - brellis   Perhaps ZLD is referring to having NH look back at...   Aug 8 2015, 06:29 AM
- - ZLD   brellis had the right idea. Its a pretty slim shot...   Aug 8 2015, 08:38 AM
|- - JRehling   NH looking back at the Sun could "see" i...   Aug 9 2015, 10:58 AM
- - ZLD   The point wouldn't be to find new objects. The...   Aug 9 2015, 12:58 PM
|- - JRehling   There are no distant objects with a good estimated...   Aug 10 2015, 03:59 AM
- - hendric   For measuring transiting exoplanets, having a defo...   Aug 10 2015, 05:41 PM
- - Mongo   Possible Trojan planet found? Characterization of...   Nov 4 2015, 02:32 AM
|- - JRehling   That possible Trojan, associated with Kepler-91b, ...   Nov 4 2015, 12:41 PM
- - Paolo   Kepler has also provided some badly needed, new da...   Jan 17 2016, 10:56 AM
- - nprev   MOD NOTE: Moved posts about KIC 8462852 to a dedic...   Jan 25 2016, 11:12 AM
- - nprev   The Kepler team has declared a spacecraft emergenc...   Apr 9 2016, 09:26 PM
- - antipode   Another reaction wheel perhaps? If so, that will ...   Apr 9 2016, 11:06 PM
- - Mongo   Mission Manager Update: Kepler Recovered from Emer...   Apr 11 2016, 06:54 PM
|- - PaulH51   QUOTE (Mongo @ Apr 12 2016, 02:54 AM) Mis...   Apr 15 2016, 11:32 PM
- - PaulH51   Good News: Mission Manager Update: Kepler Recovere...   Apr 22 2016, 10:11 PM
- - nprev   Hmm. CR hit somewhere in the processor, perhaps? I...   Apr 23 2016, 05:39 AM
|- - PaulH51   QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 23 2016, 01:39 PM) Hmm...   May 3 2016, 10:10 PM
- - Explorer1   Telecon on new discoveries in 10 minutes: http://w...   May 10 2016, 04:49 PM
- - Steve G   When are they going to start giving official names...   May 10 2016, 09:17 PM
|- - JRehling   Most of these will never* be revisited again, exce...   May 11 2016, 07:40 PM
- - TheAnt   Keplers K2 mission adds 197 planet candidates of w...   Jul 19 2016, 03:39 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Kepler seems about ready to hand the baton off to ...   Jul 13 2018, 09:14 PM
- - lyford   Thank you, Kepler mission! NASA Retires Keple...   Oct 30 2018, 09:17 PM
- - nprev   One of the greatest revelations in human history i...   Oct 31 2018, 01:32 AM
- - JRehling   If you get a clear night after sunset this month, ...   Oct 31 2018, 01:23 PM
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