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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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imran Kepler Mission Sep 24 2005, 04:23 PM
Syrinx I searched for a scientific guide on what qualifie... Nov 5 2009, 10:15 AM
mcaplinger QUOTE (Syrinx @ Nov 5 2009, 02:15 AM) I s... Nov 5 2009, 02:28 PM centsworth_II QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Nov 5 2009, 09:28 AM)... Nov 5 2009, 06:56 PM
Syrinx QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Nov 5 2009, 06:28 AM)... Nov 5 2009, 07:55 PM Holder of the Two Leashes QUOTE (Syrinx @ Nov 5 2009, 04:15 AM) For... Nov 5 2009, 04:34 PM scalbers QUOTE (Syrinx @ Nov 5 2009, 10:15 AM) Sec... Dec 19 2009, 07:52 PM Syrinx mcaplinger:
In my guide, Earth-like in no way imp... Nov 5 2009, 07:00 PM djellison I would ask people to refer back to the rules at t... Nov 5 2009, 08:57 PM Byran http://kepler.nasa.gov/about/manager.html
QUOTE Ke... Nov 6 2009, 01:44 PM tacitus From the latest mission report
QUOTE Random noise... Nov 6 2009, 06:32 PM imipak The words that stand out to this layperson, in the... Nov 6 2009, 07:41 PM Holder of the Two Leashes The third safing event, no science lost as this wa... Nov 24 2009, 09:12 PM tacitus QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Nov 24 200... Nov 25 2009, 08:16 PM Ron Hobbs TIME is reporting that "[The Kepler team] has... Dec 18 2009, 12:40 AM MahFL That link does not seem to be about Kepler and 28 ... Dec 18 2009, 03:35 PM scalbers QUOTE (MahFL @ Dec 18 2009, 03:35 PM) Tha... Dec 19 2009, 06:19 PM Ron Hobbs The real planetary scientists here may have someth... Dec 19 2009, 06:31 PM Greg Hullender QUOTE (Ron Hobbs @ Dec 19 2009, 11:31 AM)... Dec 21 2009, 04:05 PM Fred It's in the last paragraph.
EDIT: oops, I wa... Dec 23 2009, 12:15 AM Hungry4info MahFL, the reference about Kepler is at like the l... Dec 18 2009, 04:50 PM Syrinx You're correct, it's not. But it does hav... Dec 18 2009, 09:50 PM MahFL Ah in my unfamiliarity with that website I did not... Dec 18 2009, 10:52 PM scalbers Yes, and since they would have shorter orbital per... Dec 19 2009, 07:18 PM Ron Hobbs Kepler will be able to tell us how far away the pl... Dec 19 2009, 08:44 PM Syrinx QUOTE (Ron Hobbs @ Dec 19 2009, 12:44 PM)... Dec 20 2009, 08:23 AM scalbers The tricky part of the Venus scenario is that ther... Dec 19 2009, 08:53 PM Ron Hobbs Modeling the atmospheres and the effects of them o... Dec 19 2009, 09:12 PM nprev Probability, I'd say. H2O is a far more cosmic... Dec 20 2009, 08:30 AM scalbers There's a short article in the January 2010 Sc... Dec 20 2009, 02:57 PM Jason W Barnes QUOTE (scalbers @ Dec 20 2009, 08:57 AM) ... Dec 20 2009, 10:37 PM Ron Hobbs Maybe I overstepped my bounds, but I was just usin... Dec 21 2009, 06:04 PM siravan latest update: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/k... Dec 24 2009, 04:51 AM scalbers Neat - the AAS conference with results already com... Dec 24 2009, 05:21 PM Hungry4info Link doesn't work for me, as is so for all abs... Dec 24 2009, 05:26 PM belleraphon1 QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Dec 24 2009, 12:26 P... Dec 26 2009, 08:58 PM Hungry4info Ah, thanks for that. I was trying to go through ab... Dec 26 2009, 09:06 PM belleraphon1 QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Dec 26 2009, 04:06 P... Dec 27 2009, 12:02 AM Paolo NASA to Unveil Kepler Space Telescope Discoveries ... Jan 1 2010, 04:56 PM ElkGroveDan Having worked in PR for years, I'd say this li... Jan 1 2010, 05:18 PM scalbers Given the timing it might mirror pretty closely th... Jan 1 2010, 05:34 PM belleraphon1 My guess is derived from the abstract below from A... Jan 2 2010, 10:34 PM NGC3314 Keep in mind that the deadline for AAS meeting abs... Jan 2 2010, 10:48 PM NGC3314 Pamela Gay reports at Astrosphere that they will b... Jan 3 2010, 07:07 PM Greg Hullender The Kepler folks themselves say they'll tell a... Jan 4 2010, 12:59 AM nprev Article titled "The Big Reveal"?
I d... Jan 4 2010, 01:55 AM Hungry4info Five new exoplanets. 4 are larger than Jupiter. 1 ... Jan 4 2010, 02:09 PM NGC3314 Live blog from AAS: hot Jupiters and hot but icy g... Jan 4 2010, 05:12 PM Greg Hullender Nice link. Interesting how much that person looks ... Jan 4 2010, 05:14 PM infocat13 QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Jan 4 2010, 01:14... Jan 5 2010, 01:23 AM Zvezdichko http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/tableofdiscoveries/... Jan 4 2010, 06:05 PM Syrinx Slides:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/... Jan 4 2010, 06:25 PM Syrinx Check out this slide:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/... Jan 4 2010, 06:48 PM Zvezdichko With no fear of being a false prophet - I predict ... Jan 4 2010, 07:27 PM remcook "It says all five planets were discovered fro... Jan 4 2010, 08:30 PM Syrinx QUOTE (remcook @ Jan 4 2010, 12:30 PM) It... Jan 4 2010, 10:20 PM Stu Liking those slides. Very high quality. Jan 4 2010, 10:12 PM Paolo There are lots of Kepler-related papers on ArXiv t... Jan 5 2010, 06:09 AM Syrinx Thank you for the link Paolo. There goes the rest... Jan 5 2010, 07:49 PM maschnitz Yeah, definitely some fascinating reading in here.... Jan 5 2010, 09:09 PM JGodbaz Got to wonder what 'no star apparent at target... Jan 6 2010, 10:18 AM Syrinx Seven more papers up on ArXiv today. A couple of ... Jan 6 2010, 07:09 PM Paolo in Science Express today:
Kepler Planet-Detection ... Jan 7 2010, 07:30 PM Syrinx Paolo, access to that article costs $15. Doe... Jan 8 2010, 07:40 AM siravan The Science paper is essentially a summary of the ... Jan 8 2010, 11:59 AM Greg Hullender Don't miss the supplemental materials, which h... Jan 9 2010, 04:59 AM Hungry4info IIRC, they load up all the planets they got and du... Jan 9 2010, 05:50 AM nprev That's kind of an awesome thought in its way, ... Jan 9 2010, 05:59 AM Hungry4info Yeah, and with there being a finite number of easy... Jan 9 2010, 07:07 AM Greg Hullender Possible failure in a module that holds two of the... Jan 20 2010, 12:29 PM belleraphon1 Observations of Transiting Hot Compact Objects (by... Jan 21 2010, 10:59 PM Habitable Zoner Could the next announcement of planet discoveries ... Feb 1 2010, 12:56 PM Greg Hullender No, I'd expect that this will just be a refine... Feb 2 2010, 01:52 AM Habitable Zoner Then maybe, just maybe, our next opportunity will ... Feb 2 2010, 02:05 PM siravan Another safe mode on February 2: http://www.nasa.g... Feb 9 2010, 01:02 AM Habitable Zoner I asked an attendee at the APS conference if she h... Feb 17 2010, 04:36 PM djellison Given that
- The exciting stuff is going to be ea... Feb 17 2010, 05:48 PM Habitable Zoner Understood. But I personally would feel that the d... Feb 18 2010, 03:46 AM Hungry4info Do remember that most Kepler stars are inherently ... Feb 18 2010, 06:49 AM Greg Hullender I think part of the idea is to get comfortable dis... Feb 19 2010, 10:19 PM Greg Hullender Another Mission Manager Update:
http://www.kepler... Mar 11 2010, 03:03 AM Habitable Zoner This statement also caught my eye: "The scien... Mar 11 2010, 03:20 AM nprev I don't think that it is observable from the S... Mar 11 2010, 03:33 AM Greg Hullender From Seattle (latitude 47 degrees 36 minutes 35 se... Mar 11 2010, 05:12 AM nprev True. I don't think that there are any large g... Mar 11 2010, 05:22 AM Mongo QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 11 2010, 06:22 AM) Tru... Mar 11 2010, 04:37 PM Greg Hullender A better question would be how large a telescope i... Mar 11 2010, 03:56 PM Habitable Zoner What ground-based scopes actually are involved in ... Mar 12 2010, 03:01 AM bluemars1 QUOTE (Habitable Zoner @ Mar 11 2010, 08... Mar 12 2010, 04:42 PM Mongo 10.00m -- Keck 1 -- 19.50N
9.20m -- Hobby-Eberly T... Mar 12 2010, 07:00 PM Byran QUOTE (Mongo @ Mar 13 2010, 01:30 AM) 11.... Mar 16 2010, 10:52 AM scalbers I understand that Kepler data are being made publi... Mar 19 2010, 01:52 PM Greg Hullender The place I think they might miss some would be pl... Mar 19 2010, 03:13 PM Habitable Zoner Bill Borucki's talk at the Exoplanets Rising c... Mar 30 2010, 07:04 PM Greg Hullender So was anything new announced there? I'm guess... Apr 1 2010, 03:39 AM Habitable Zoner QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Mar 31 2010, 11:3... Apr 1 2010, 12:19 PM NGC3314 QUOTE (Habitable Zoner @ Apr 1 2010, 06:1... Apr 1 2010, 01:38 PM Sunspot Alien Planet Hunter Develops a Blind Spot
hmmm I ... Apr 1 2010, 04:53 PM brellis It would take years to find an earth orbiting one ... Apr 1 2010, 05:07 PM Greg Hullender @Sunspot Yeah, I don't see anything new on the... Apr 1 2010, 05:33 PM  |
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