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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
- - 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
|||- - Hungry4info   QUOTE ("cassioli")QUOTE ("Hungry4in...   Feb 3 2011, 05:10 PM
|||- - Marz   This is hugely exciting! I realize more measu...   Feb 3 2011, 06:48 PM
|||- - cassioli   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Feb 3 2011, 06:10 PM...   Feb 3 2011, 07:56 PM
||- - 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
- - Drkskywxlt   As far as confirming Kepler planet candidates, loo...   Feb 3 2011, 04:54 PM
- - Explorer1   I'm a regular reader, and the Bad Astronomer...   Feb 3 2011, 06:39 PM
- - middleschoolsteve   I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious...   Feb 3 2011, 07:05 PM
- - hendric   Middleschoolsteve, Yes, this is exactly what Kep...   Feb 3 2011, 07:29 PM
- - Mongo   The obvious next step after Kepler is TESS, which ...   Feb 3 2011, 07:58 PM
- - ZLD   My hope is set on Giant Magellan or the ELT being ...   Feb 3 2011, 08:28 PM
- - hendric   Found a nice place to download the Kepler data in ...   Feb 3 2011, 08:33 PM
|- - cassioli   QUOTE (hendric @ Feb 3 2011, 09:33 PM) Fo...   Feb 3 2011, 08:44 PM
- - Stu   Have to be honest, I'm a bit disappointed and ...   Feb 3 2011, 08:50 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Stu @ Feb 3 2011, 08:50 PM) I...   Feb 3 2011, 10:55 PM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (ngunn @ Feb 4 2011, 08:55 AM) Me t...   Feb 4 2011, 03:29 AM
||- - Juramike   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Feb 3 2011, 10:29 PM) I ...   Feb 4 2011, 07:11 PM
||- - SFJCody   QUOTE (Juramike @ Feb 5 2011, 05:11 AM) S...   Feb 5 2011, 09:56 PM
|- - Eric Goldstein   QUOTE (ngunn @ Feb 3 2011, 04:55 PM) Me t...   Feb 4 2011, 06:25 PM
|- - Syrinx   All of Kepler's data is out and freely availab...   Feb 4 2011, 06:42 PM
- - Littau   Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but ...   Feb 3 2011, 10:39 PM
|- - Drkskywxlt   QUOTE (Littau @ Feb 3 2011, 05:39 PM) For...   Feb 4 2011, 01:23 AM
- - Superstring   Just for fun, here is some quick and dirty math he...   Feb 4 2011, 01:07 AM
|- - Drkskywxlt   QUOTE (Superstring @ Feb 3 2011, 08:07 PM...   Feb 4 2011, 01:25 AM
|- - Superstring   QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Feb 4 2011, 01:25 AM)...   Feb 4 2011, 01:57 AM
- - djellison   I would ask all contributors to this thread to re-...   Feb 4 2011, 02:45 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   OK putting on the Admin hat here to elaborate on D...   Feb 4 2011, 02:53 AM
- - marsophile   It should be remembered that the results so far ar...   Feb 4 2011, 04:45 PM
- - Mongo   One fact that has been noted by various people is ...   Feb 4 2011, 07:57 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   Mongo...I think you're forgetting about orbita...   Feb 4 2011, 08:23 PM
- - Greg Hullender   Has anyone devised a way to look for the spectrum ...   Feb 4 2011, 11:26 PM
- - antipode   Another thing about all these large numbers being ...   Feb 4 2011, 11:46 PM
- - Greg Hullender   Maybe not as much as you think. Check this out for...   Feb 5 2011, 07:00 PM
- - Juramike   I think there is good evidence for exoplanets, and...   Feb 5 2011, 11:04 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Juramike @ Feb 5 2011, 11:04 PM) I...   Feb 6 2011, 12:19 AM
- - nprev   Very true, guys. I suspect that we're ultimate...   Feb 6 2011, 12:33 AM
- - belleraphon1   Juramike, ngunn, nprev... I concur. The variety a...   Feb 6 2011, 05:42 PM
- - centsworth_II   Its all a matter of definitions. Mercury is a Te...   Feb 6 2011, 06:44 PM
- - Syrinx   Adding to what centsworth has said: None of the K...   Feb 6 2011, 07:21 PM
- - ngunn   I have a question about Kepler 11. How edge-on is ...   Feb 7 2011, 11:52 PM
- - Hungry4info   If there are further planets, it depends entirely ...   Feb 8 2011, 12:14 AM
- - Greg Hullender   @ngunn Yeah, given the period, the estimated mass,...   Feb 9 2011, 01:39 AM
- - Hungry4info   If you don't know the orbital period, you can...   Feb 9 2011, 04:33 AM
- - Mongo   This is assuming that the orbit is near circular. ...   Feb 9 2011, 02:53 PM
- - Greg Hullender   @Hungry: If you have the radius of the star, you d...   Feb 9 2011, 03:22 PM
|- - Mongo   I think that it would be a lot easier to get suffi...   Feb 9 2011, 07:34 PM
- - Hungry4info   @ Greg, If you don't know the orbital period, ...   Feb 9 2011, 07:47 PM
|- - Gsnorgathon   IIRC, under the right conditions, Kepler might be ...   Feb 9 2011, 08:43 PM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (Gsnorgathon @ Feb 9 2011, 08:43 PM...   Feb 9 2011, 09:09 PM
- - Greg Hullender   @Hungry Those two examples will have very differen...   Feb 10 2011, 02:12 AM
- - Hungry4info   What do you mean by transit onset times? The time ...   Feb 10 2011, 05:09 AM
- - hendric   H4I, meet short cadence. Short cadence, meet H4I....   Feb 10 2011, 06:38 AM
- - Hungry4info   I'm familiar with the 1-minute short cadence f...   Feb 10 2011, 07:17 AM
- - Greg Hullender   @Hungry Yes, time from first contact to second (ca...   Feb 10 2011, 03:24 PM
|- - marsophile   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Feb 10 2011, 07:2...   Feb 10 2011, 05:50 PM
|- - FatSplenda   QUOTE (marsophile @ Feb 10 2011, 09:50 AM...   Feb 10 2011, 06:26 PM
- - Juramike   Very pretty visualization of Kepler data: (some a...   Feb 10 2011, 04:18 PM
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