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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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imran Kepler Mission Sep 24 2005, 04:23 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
hendric QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Feb 10 2011, 01:17 A... Feb 11 2011, 03:23 PM
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
Gsnorgathon Shhh! They're right there in the released ... Feb 11 2011, 01:06 AM
brellis QUOTE (FatSplenda @ Feb 10 2011, 10:26 AM... Feb 11 2011, 09:38 PM
Juramike Very pretty visualization of Kepler data: (some a... Feb 10 2011, 04:18 PM
Greg Hullender @hendric So for the planet you show, I figure it t... Feb 11 2011, 03:53 AM
Hungry4info The planet is TrES-2 b.
http://exoplanet.eu/star.p... Feb 11 2011, 04:19 AM
Greg Hullender @Hungry Hmmm. I seem to have a factor of 2 error s... Feb 11 2011, 03:31 PM
Hungry4info @ Hendric,
The transits of these planets is measu... Feb 11 2011, 07:01 PM
hendric That I couldn't tell you. I assumed it had an... Feb 11 2011, 09:35 PM
marsophile It seems that once there is a large enough databas... Feb 12 2011, 01:04 AM
Greg Hullender @marsophile You can compute that from a single tra... Feb 12 2011, 05:46 AM
Greg Hullender @hungry and hendric Okay, I found my error. Applyi... Feb 12 2011, 06:15 AM
Hungry4info Nice, well done Feb 12 2011, 06:57 PM
Greg Hullender Thanks. It turns out, someone else did the same th... Feb 12 2011, 07:32 PM
hendric Update on the short cadence data:
Hi Richard -
I... Feb 13 2011, 04:49 AM
Hungry4info QUOTE ("hendric")If the transit chord is... Feb 13 2011, 06:39 AM![]() ![]() |
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