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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
- - hendric   Cassioli, That formula is only valid for the Sol...   Sep 22 2010, 07:35 PM
- - remcook   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Sep 22 2010, 03:01 P...   Sep 23 2010, 07:23 AM
- - akuo   All the stars Kepler observes should be well known...   Sep 24 2010, 09:40 AM
- - Greg Hullender   I think the Kepler site itself has a nice explanat...   Sep 25 2010, 02:44 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   The latest update has arrived here. Biggest news: ...   Sep 29 2010, 04:03 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   Kepler insider, "Dr. Jason Steffen of Fermi N...   Oct 20 2010, 10:03 AM
- - Syrinx   It was what, 6 months ago that somebody on the tea...   Oct 20 2010, 10:57 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   The Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC)...   Oct 24 2010, 03:01 AM
- - Habitable Zoner   The talk turned out to be a nice summary of how Ke...   Oct 27 2010, 10:14 AM
- - Syrinx   I'm reading through "The Occurrence and M...   Nov 1 2010, 07:04 AM
- - remcook   It's also available here: http://arxiv.org/abs...   Nov 2 2010, 12:51 PM
- - Syrinx   QUOTE Nov. 17 Astronomy Lecture Explores Catching ...   Nov 8 2010, 07:05 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   Interesting quote from Geoffrey Marcy in a recent ...   Nov 13 2010, 01:31 AM
- - Habitable Zoner   The paper "Discovery and Rossiter-McLauglin E...   Nov 16 2010, 12:48 PM
- - Syrinx   That's behind a paywall. Here's a free on...   Nov 16 2010, 02:34 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   It's interesting to go to the AAS Seattle Meet...   Nov 21 2010, 03:06 AM
|- - NGC3314   Some of the rest of us, planning (say) Hubble imag...   Nov 21 2010, 03:14 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Latest status Interesting details of the upcoming...   Dec 7 2010, 03:27 PM
- - NGC3314   Kepler meets citizen science! From the people ...   Dec 16 2010, 12:42 PM
- - remcook   That looks really cool edit - aaaargh...sucked i...   Dec 16 2010, 12:56 PM
- - Greg Hullender   New manager's update: Safe Mode Update http:/...   Dec 31 2010, 03:23 AM
|- - FatSplenda   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Dec 30 2010, 07:2...   Jan 4 2011, 05:43 PM
- - nprev   Rats. The press release didn't provide any...   Dec 31 2010, 06:38 PM
|- - FatSplenda   QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 31 2010, 10:38 AM) Rat...   Jan 3 2011, 09:05 PM
- - Syrinx   Thanks for the info! Please stick around!   Jan 4 2011, 06:28 AM
- - FatSplenda   I spoke to my former colleagues at LASP and BATC, ...   Jan 7 2011, 09:49 PM
- - DEChengst   New discovery to be announced today: QUOTE A new ...   Jan 10 2011, 04:39 PM
- - DEChengst   NASA'S Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rock...   Jan 10 2011, 07:01 PM
- - belleraphon1   KEPLER-10b 1.4 Earth radius 4.6 Earth mass 8.8 g/...   Jan 10 2011, 07:07 PM
|- - Drkskywxlt   QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Jan 10 2011, 02:07 ...   Jan 10 2011, 07:11 PM
||- - tasp   QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Jan 10 2011, 01:11 PM...   Jan 10 2011, 10:55 PM
||- - AndyG   QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Jan 10 2011, 07:11 PM...   Jan 10 2011, 10:59 PM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Jan 10 2011, 08:07 ...   Jan 12 2011, 10:23 AM
|- - algorimancer   QUOTE (vikingmars @ Jan 12 2011, 04:23 AM...   Jan 12 2011, 03:30 PM
- - MaDeR   "Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is...   Jan 10 2011, 07:41 PM
- - punkboi   Pulsar planets? Never heard of those   Jan 10 2011, 09:25 PM
|- - MaDeR   QUOTE (punkboi @ Jan 10 2011, 10:25 PM) P...   Jan 11 2011, 05:25 PM
- - DEChengst   I created an RTF formatted log of the chat session...   Jan 10 2011, 09:40 PM
- - Syrinx   These online Q&A sessions really make me appre...   Jan 10 2011, 09:54 PM
- - Hungry4info   It would have been more accurate to say "smal...   Jan 11 2011, 06:38 PM
- - NGC3314   In a talk at the AAS meeting today, pulsar astrono...   Jan 12 2011, 03:52 AM
- - cassioli   Which time period is covered by data currently bei...   Jan 12 2011, 07:17 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Kepler 10-b doesn't sound much like the fictio...   Jan 12 2011, 03:35 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   The Kepler RV follow-up team had a presentation at...   Jan 14 2011, 08:30 PM
- - nprev   "-Many multi-planet systems" Endles...   Jan 15 2011, 01:10 AM
- - sawyer   First, Kepler is an amazing mission and the right ...   Jan 18 2011, 01:18 AM
|- - FatSplenda   Admin: Unnecessary quoting removed. I echo your s...   Jan 18 2011, 11:21 PM
- - Syrinx   Not exactly Kepler related, but I've written a...   Jan 26 2011, 08:35 AM
- - punkboi   NASA To Announce New Planetary Discoveries on Febr...   Jan 27 2011, 06:32 PM
|- - Syrinx   The announcement (or "media advisory" as...   Jan 27 2011, 11:26 PM
|- - FatSplenda   Going. To be. Amazing. !!!!...   Jan 27 2011, 11:27 PM
|- - Syrinx   Double!? Would one spring/summer observation ...   Jan 27 2011, 11:30 PM
- - Hungry4info   Agreed. 500 planets is completely unrealistic. The...   Jan 28 2011, 01:55 AM
|- - FatSplenda   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jan 27 2011, 05:55 P...   Jan 28 2011, 07:10 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   I don't want to speculate. But make no mistake...   Jan 28 2011, 03:00 AM
- - cassioli   I think the briefing will be about this old news: ...   Jan 28 2011, 10:56 AM
- - ZLD   Wouldn't it be too soon to announce conclusive...   Jan 28 2011, 03:34 PM
- - Hungry4info   Kepler detects planets in a method that doesn...   Jan 28 2011, 06:34 PM
- - ZLD   I wasn't intending to imply the methods were s...   Jan 28 2011, 07:01 PM
|- - cassioli   QUOTE (ZLD @ Jan 28 2011, 08:01 PM) if th...   Jan 28 2011, 09:27 PM
- - Syrinx   The data was released at 1am this morning (Wednesd...   Feb 2 2011, 08:41 AM
- - Drkskywxlt   So the 1000+ planet candidates with the data revea...   Feb 2 2011, 03:17 PM
|- - FatSplenda   Hm, hard to tell. I was under the impression that ...   Feb 2 2011, 03:50 PM
- - Syrinx   Re: the 400 unreleased planet candidates. That...   Feb 2 2011, 05:24 PM
- - Hungry4info   As I understand it, the 400 candidates that were w...   Feb 2 2011, 05:38 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   Ok, that make sense. Thanks Hungry4info. T-4 min...   Feb 2 2011, 05:56 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   1235 candidates now. The 400 planets ARE included...   Feb 2 2011, 06:05 PM
|- - cassioli   Some screenshots from press conference: http://tec...   Feb 2 2011, 07:11 PM
|- - FatSplenda   Holy. Cow. Great day. What was depressing was th...   Feb 2 2011, 07:24 PM
|- - cassioli   QUOTE (FatSplenda @ Feb 2 2011, 08:24 PM)...   Feb 2 2011, 07:39 PM
||- - djellison   QUOTE (cassioli @ Feb 2 2011, 11:39 AM) 2...   Feb 2 2011, 09:32 PM
||- - cassioli   QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 2 2011, 10:32 PM) ...   Feb 2 2011, 09:38 PM
||- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (cassioli @ Feb 2 2011, 04:38 PM) O...   Feb 2 2011, 11:36 PM
|||- - cassioli   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Feb 3 2011, 12:36 AM...   Feb 3 2011, 07:30 AM
|||- - djellison   QUOTE (cassioli @ Feb 2 2011, 11:30 PM) I...   Feb 3 2011, 07:39 AM
||- - djellison   QUOTE (cassioli @ Feb 2 2011, 01:38 PM) O...   Feb 2 2011, 11:50 PM
||- - SFJCody   Wonderful news. It's a shame we can't have...   Feb 2 2011, 11:53 PM
|- - Sunspot   QUOTE (FatSplenda @ Feb 2 2011, 07:24 PM)...   Feb 2 2011, 08:29 PM
- - sawyer   As Spock would say, FASCINATING! I had some q...   Feb 2 2011, 07:32 PM
- - Stu   RE: Kepler Mission   Feb 2 2011, 09:25 PM
- - cassioli   Nature article ($$$): http://www.na...   Feb 2 2011, 09:55 PM
- - stewjack   For those who missed the news conference =========...   Feb 2 2011, 10:22 PM
- - Syrinx   Re: The media. Seriously. There were ~10 members...   Feb 2 2011, 10:53 PM
- - belleraphon1   Yes... patience is a necessity. I read Dole...   Feb 3 2011, 12:59 AM
- - nprev   Re the press reaction: I'm not terribly surpri...   Feb 3 2011, 01:09 AM
- - belleraphon1   Preprint of Kepler11 paper... link from the Extras...   Feb 3 2011, 01:23 AM
- - Stu   Well said, Nick. Patience is fine and, yes, needed...   Feb 3 2011, 02:26 AM
- - nprev   Dig it, Stu. I'm only advocating patience f...   Feb 3 2011, 02:52 AM
|- - Mongo   Repeating a post I made at another board: Here is...   Feb 3 2011, 04:08 AM
|- - hendric   QUOTE (Mongo @ Feb 2 2011, 10:08 PM) KOI ...   Feb 3 2011, 06:22 AM
- - brellis   Thing that gets me is, the nominal mission duratio...   Feb 3 2011, 06:25 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (brellis @ Feb 2 2011, 10:25 PM) Ca...   Feb 3 2011, 07:09 AM
- - ZLD   Didn't notice this til far too late in the day...   Feb 3 2011, 06:36 AM
- - ZLD   The mission has already lasted almost 2 years, and...   Feb 3 2011, 08:21 AM
- - peter59   I just read an article about the Kepler-11. Kepler...   Feb 3 2011, 02:06 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (peter59 @ Feb 3 2011, 03:06 PM) I ...   Feb 3 2011, 03:12 PM
|- - FatSplenda   QUOTE (peter59 @ Feb 3 2011, 06:06 AM) I ...   Feb 3 2011, 03:54 PM
- - ZLD   People have been observing transits on Earth for q...   Feb 3 2011, 02:43 PM
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