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Dec 6 2011, 12:59 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
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Dec 6 2011, 05:36 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 29-August 06 From: Columbia, MD Member No.: 1083 |
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Dec 6 2011, 06:38 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
And the "Adding Two and Two to Get Ten" Award goes to...
(opens envelope)... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...o=feeds-newsxml -------------------- |
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Dec 6 2011, 03:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 362 Joined: 13-April 06 From: Malta Member No.: 741 |
Very well presented conference on this new discovery ..Next major step is determining the mass(and hence density) of the planet so as to better characterize it interms of whether it is likely to be rocky type(Earth-like) or more like uranus/neptune type if I understood correctly. I would assume that atmospheric measurements will be possible by spectral analysis in the near future. How do they actually get to measure planetary mass ??
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Dec 6 2011, 09:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
How do they actually get to measure planetary mass ?? ye olde radial velocity technique that revealed most of the known exoplanets before Kepler was launched provides a measurement for the mass with an uncertainty due to the unknown angle between the line of sight and the plane of the planet's orbit. In the case of transiting exoplanets you know that the angle is practically zero, so the technique directly gives the value of the mass. |
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Dec 7 2011, 02:19 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 4-July 08 Member No.: 4251 |
Today's Kepler press briefing: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=35425 Thank you! I'd been monitoring space-multimedia.nl.eu.org and youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision waiting for this to pop up, and was disappointed that it hadn't appeared. For anyone who is scanning this thread looking for a Youtube clip, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5OObU0ryU |
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Dec 7 2011, 12:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Kepler’s Quest for New Worlds Public Talk
Dr. Natalie Batalha & Dr. Don Kurtz for a free public talk on NASA's Kepler Mission http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/p458cqu9hr4/ Have not had time to watch this yet... enjoy Craig |
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Dec 7 2011, 05:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 311 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Florida & Texas, USA Member No.: 482 |
Kepler’s Quest for New Worlds Public Talk Awesome that they end with a quote from Rui. Kepler's success is so inspiring, I really hope this is a driver for getting the next generation of telescopes; Kepler-like spacecraft that can map multiple fields of view as well as the Terrestrial Planet finder chronograph and interferometer. WFIRST is set for launch in 2022, but I think it's the only new planet hunter in the works. /sigh |
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Dec 7 2011, 09:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 131 Joined: 31-May 08 From: San Carlos, California, USA Member No.: 4168 |
For those in the CA Bay Area:
--------------------- SETI Institute in Sunnyvale Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 7:00pm The Search for Habitable Exoplanets in the Kepler Era and Beyond Sara Seager Planetary Science and Physics, MIT For centuries people have wondered, “Are we alone?” With hundreds of planets now known to orbit other stars, we are finally able to begin answering the ancient questions, "Do other Earths exist? Are they common? Do any have signs of life? NASA's Kepler space telescope will soon tell us the statistical numbers of Earth-size planets orbiting sun-size stars. Beyond Kepler is the search for potentially habitable worlds around nearby, sun-like stars. Professor Seager will discuss how astrobiology and space engineering research will come together to enable us to discover and identify other Earth-like worlds. --------------------- If you've got any questions let me know and I'll try to ask. |
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Dec 8 2011, 12:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
KEPLER Science Conference sessions are being archived here: scroll down the page in the link
http://kepler.nasa.gov/Science/ForScientis...rence/sessions/ Craig |
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Dec 8 2011, 08:49 PM
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Dec 9 2011, 03:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 29-August 06 From: Columbia, MD Member No.: 1083 |
Just FYI...Kepler has NOT found any exomoons let alone habitable exomoons, despite what that website that Mongo posted says. Geoff Marcy said that unequivocally yesterday at his Sagan Lecture at AGU.
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Dec 9 2011, 08:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 723 Joined: 13-June 04 Member No.: 82 |
I dug into the site, and it appears that when they are talking about exomoons, they mean gas giants that are sufficiently large to plausibly host orbiting Earth-like moons.
The Mass and Radius of Potential Exomoons Latest List of Potential Habitable Exoplanets and Exomoons They are using the same planet to moon-system ratios seen in our solar system for the gas and ice giants (Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune all at about 3000:1, Uranus at about 10000:1) They then use this ratio to estimate the mass of the largest plausible moons of gas giants that are already known to be in the star's habitable zone. So yes, the exomoon numbers are speculation based on solar system statistics. They do state on the home page that no exomoons have been observed yet, but they could be more clear that the listed exomoon statistics are conjectural. |
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Dec 20 2011, 02:52 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 507 Joined: 10-September 08 Member No.: 4338 |
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Dec 20 2011, 09:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1582 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Is there a schematic view of this new Kepler-20 system? Sounds like it's Neptune, Mars, Neptune, Earth, Neptune. Within the orbit of Mercury. Crazy.
[edit] There are at least videos in the presskit: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/events/20...0-presskit.html [another edit] My wish fulfilled, by space.com: http://www.space.com/13987-earth-size-alie...nfographic.html |
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