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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".

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http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/
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- imran   Kepler Mission   Sep 24 2005, 04:23 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   One report out today on Space Daily suggests that ...   Mar 8 2012, 04:36 PM
|- - JRehling   It's worth noting (a point I trimmed from the ...   Mar 8 2012, 07:02 PM
- - brellis   How many of the 158,000 stars are tilted enough th...   Mar 8 2012, 05:54 PM
- - hendric   John, I was unsure in the article what you did t...   Mar 8 2012, 10:36 PM
|- - JRehling   hendric, the raw count of observed candidates is b...   Mar 8 2012, 11:01 PM
- - ngunn   Great to see you posting again JRehling. Here...   Mar 8 2012, 10:43 PM
|- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (ngunn @ Mar 8 2012, 05:43 PM) 3/ ...   Mar 8 2012, 11:23 PM
|- - JRehling   You can also look at the satellite systems of Jupi...   Mar 9 2012, 12:57 AM
|- - blairf   The kicker in your analysis is the assumption that...   Mar 11 2012, 09:17 PM
|- - JRehling   Blair, there are unfortunately a lot of kickers......   Mar 12 2012, 05:15 PM
- - siravan   My understanding of current planetary systems form...   Mar 12 2012, 12:54 AM
|- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (siravan @ Mar 11 2012, 06:54 PM) M...   Mar 12 2012, 03:56 AM
- - siravan   When the big planet forms (the so called oligarchs...   Mar 12 2012, 11:13 AM
- - brellis   "F4 The effect of transit "latitude...   Mar 18 2012, 02:13 AM
|- - siravan   QUOTE (brellis @ Mar 17 2012, 09:13 PM) M...   Mar 18 2012, 05:00 AM
- - Mongo   Not to mention that if we have the orbital period,...   Mar 18 2012, 05:25 PM
|- - JRehling   siravan and Mongo are right, but there are a coupl...   Mar 19 2012, 06:00 PM
- - brellis   Thanks for the answers! Initially it's d...   Mar 18 2012, 06:18 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   Kepler was extended through 2016!   Apr 5 2012, 06:51 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Apr 5 2012, 07:51 PM)...   Apr 5 2012, 07:14 PM
|- - JRehling   An extension is really great news. As I get deepe...   Apr 5 2012, 07:28 PM
- - marsophile   http://swri.org/9what/releases/2012/unseen-planet....   May 14 2012, 07:28 PM
- - Fran Ontanaya   Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal...   Jun 13 2012, 06:44 PM
- - Paolo   a reaction wheel appears to be malfunctioning Kepl...   Jul 24 2012, 11:55 AM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (Paolo @ Jul 24 2012, 07:55 AM) a r...   Jul 24 2012, 01:02 PM
|- - JRehling   Hopefully, the nominal operations can continue muc...   Jul 24 2012, 06:42 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Here is the Mission Manager's Report on the in...   Jul 24 2012, 02:39 PM
- - Mongo   One Of Our Planets Is Missing Possible Disintegra...   Aug 16 2012, 01:21 AM
- - Mongo   More on the above peculiar object: Modelling the ...   Aug 21 2012, 02:25 AM
- - Ondaweb   At the daily press conferences put on by the Divis...   Oct 18 2012, 03:52 PM
- - Hungry4info   The part of the conference you mention confused me...   Oct 18 2012, 04:00 PM
|- - Ondaweb   First, thanks a lot for your detailed response. I ...   Oct 18 2012, 05:34 PM
|- - JRehling   Hungry4info's answer is right on the money on ...   Oct 18 2012, 11:00 PM
|- - Ondaweb   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Oct 18 2012, 11:00 A...   Oct 19 2012, 08:54 PM
- - Hungry4info   If a planetary system is perfectly coplanar and th...   Oct 18 2012, 05:57 PM
|- - Ondaweb   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Oct 18 2012, 12:57 P...   Oct 19 2012, 05:34 PM
- - brellis   Consider Uranus, and entire system tipped 90 degre...   Oct 19 2012, 07:08 PM
- - Hungry4info   The assumption arises out of a rejection of anthro...   Oct 19 2012, 07:24 PM
- - Hungry4info   Yes it's possible that a multi-planet system o...   Oct 19 2012, 09:02 PM
- - Ondaweb   OK, we're making progress here. What I descri...   Oct 19 2012, 09:47 PM
|- - JRehling   I'll try to make this as simple as possible. ...   Oct 19 2012, 11:00 PM
- - Hungry4info   I am not exactly sure what specifically you are co...   Oct 19 2012, 10:26 PM
- - Ondaweb   I think I understand your argument, but need clari...   Oct 20 2012, 12:40 AM
|- - JRehling   I think the difficulty in picturing 3D spatial geo...   Oct 20 2012, 12:02 PM
- - hendric   Could transiting a fast-rotating star give an oppo...   Oct 22 2012, 04:22 PM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (hendric @ Oct 22 2012, 11:22 AM) C...   Oct 23 2012, 05:03 PM
- - Hungry4info   Yes indeed. Look at KOI-13 for an example of a pla...   Oct 22 2012, 04:27 PM
- - 0101Morpheus   New analysis of close in planets around M dwarfs s...   Jan 4 2013, 05:57 PM
|- - JRehling   This result, which has been echoed in the mainstre...   Jan 4 2013, 11:15 PM
- - 0101Morpheus   I wouldn't say it has found nothing per-se. Pl...   Jan 5 2013, 12:48 AM
|- - JRehling   Just to make clear what the ice line is, in the co...   Jan 5 2013, 09:08 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   NASA has announced 461 new planet candidates today...   Jan 7 2013, 08:00 PM
- - JRehling   Here's a scorecard on the most recent Kepler r...   Jan 8 2013, 05:46 PM
- - TheAnt   Kepler have changed our perspective in a major way...   Jan 14 2013, 09:23 PM
|- - JRehling   Every method of exoplanet discovery has biases, an...   Jan 16 2013, 08:44 PM
- - brellis   Very well stated, Mr Rehling!   Jan 16 2013, 08:50 PM
- - brellis   Has Kepler found any previously undiscovered stars...   Feb 6 2013, 07:12 PM
|- - Reed   QUOTE (brellis @ Feb 6 2013, 11:12 AM) Ha...   Feb 6 2013, 10:05 PM
|- - JRehling   As I slowly digest the last few months' Kepler...   Feb 7 2013, 06:31 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (JRehling @ Feb 7 2013, 10:31 AM) ....   Feb 18 2013, 12:36 AM
|- - JRehling   It's been noted in team publications that the ...   Feb 19 2013, 06:39 AM
- - brellis   Since most of the stars in Kepler's view are R...   Feb 8 2013, 03:55 AM
|- - JRehling   Relatively few of the stars observed by Kepler are...   Feb 8 2013, 06:06 AM
- - nprev   Depends on the star's actual mass & temp. ...   Feb 8 2013, 04:26 AM
- - TheAnt   This subject are somewhat related to the findings ...   Feb 10 2013, 06:32 PM
- - Explorer1   Planet smaller than Mercury discovered; very impre...   Feb 20 2013, 06:59 PM
- - 0101Morpheus   Well I have some bad news. The reaction wheel lo...   Apr 4 2013, 10:53 PM
- - stevesliva   Reaction wheels are so vexing.   Apr 5 2013, 02:58 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   They need to call the guys at JAXA.   Apr 5 2013, 06:23 AM
- - dtolman   If the 3rd reaction fails (OK, when) they'll s...   Apr 17 2013, 04:21 PM
|- - JRehling   I think it's particularly important that we ge...   Apr 18 2013, 09:31 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Hoping for the best on the reaction wheel. Live K...   Apr 18 2013, 02:36 PM
- - Paolo   Kepler Snags Super-Earth-Size Planet Squarely in a...   Apr 18 2013, 05:50 PM
- - remcook   How quick this field goes. A decade ago this would...   Apr 18 2013, 05:57 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (remcook @ Apr 18 2013, 09:57 AM) A...   Apr 18 2013, 11:14 PM
- - remcook   OK, Imagined is not the good word. I'll have t...   Apr 19 2013, 06:14 AM
- - 0101Morpheus   The Kepler mission just keeps getting better and b...   Apr 21 2013, 02:14 PM
- - monty python   Boy that is a great graphic! They put a lot of...   Apr 22 2013, 05:57 AM
- - ChrisC   NASA has suddenly announced a "status telecon...   May 15 2013, 05:26 PM
- - Hungry4info   Yep. Reaction wheel failure. They're looking a...   May 15 2013, 08:08 PM
|- - dtolman   If they can't fix it, then its game over for i...   May 16 2013, 03:14 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (dtolman @ May 15 2013, 07:14 PM) I...   May 16 2013, 03:18 AM
- - brellis   Would it be useful for Kepler to randomly scan whe...   May 16 2013, 04:55 AM
|- - MahFL   QUOTE (brellis @ May 16 2013, 04:55 AM) W...   May 16 2013, 11:04 AM
|- - dtolman   According to the mission manager, it can scan if i...   May 16 2013, 11:20 AM
|- - JRehling   To reconcile the last few messages, the question i...   May 16 2013, 08:34 PM
|- - Holder of the Two Leashes   While I'm disappointed with this (apparent) ab...   May 16 2013, 11:02 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ May 16 201...   May 17 2013, 01:03 AM
||- - djellison   QUOTE (dvandorn @ May 16 2013, 06:03 PM) ...   May 17 2013, 06:32 AM
|- - JRehling   Holder, An unexpected source of variability exist...   May 17 2013, 03:43 AM
- - 0101Morpheus   Say the team does resort to using a telescope as a...   May 17 2013, 09:33 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (0101Morpheus @ May 17 2013, 02:33 ...   May 17 2013, 09:47 PM
- - 0101Morpheus   Right, so if we know they are there then it means ...   May 17 2013, 10:50 PM
|- - JRehling   There's added complexity, Morpheus, because fo...   May 20 2013, 06:38 PM
- - Hungry4info   I'm not sure you understand the difficulties h...   May 18 2013, 01:11 AM
- - Vultur   Honestly, I think the planets at the appropriate d...   May 18 2013, 02:03 AM
- - dtolman   Based off the latest interviews these are the scen...   May 18 2013, 02:42 AM
- - monty python   Maybe if the metal on metal momenum wheel can be m...   May 21 2013, 07:22 AM
- - djellison   If we already expect a transit - why not observe i...   May 21 2013, 08:14 AM
- - remcook   "If we already expect a transit - why not obs...   May 21 2013, 11:25 AM
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