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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
- - 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
- - Greg Hullender   I agree. I'm trying to decide whether study of...   Feb 14 2011, 05:17 AM
- - hendric   Greg, Not sure what you mean by Omega, but if yo...   Feb 14 2011, 04:01 PM
- - Hungry4info   Ω is the ascending node of the orbit, somethi...   Feb 14 2011, 07:26 PM
- - Greg Hullender   @Hungry I know it could take centuries, but it...   Feb 15 2011, 02:22 AM
- - sawyer   The latest data release was pretty spectacular in ...   Mar 2 2011, 07:13 PM
|- - Habitable Zoner   QUOTE (sawyer @ Mar 2 2011, 02:13 PM) Is ...   Mar 3 2011, 01:18 AM
|- - Habitable Zoner   Of course that doesn't mean that you'll on...   Mar 3 2011, 03:49 PM
- - hendric   It looks like the new Kepler data has arrived at t...   Mar 4 2011, 12:22 AM
- - marsophile   http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=36329...   Mar 9 2011, 09:38 PM
- - Syrinx   Thanks for the link. Summary: - A planet with 0....   Mar 9 2011, 10:41 PM
- - Hungry4info   Agreed, 1 in 40 isn't that bad. And that's...   Mar 10 2011, 07:36 AM
|- - Syrinx   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Mar 9 2011, 11:36 PM...   Mar 10 2011, 07:35 PM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Mar 10 2011, 08:36 A...   Mar 10 2011, 10:11 PM
|- - Syrinx   I agree with your general thought. We need better...   Mar 10 2011, 10:57 PM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (Syrinx @ Mar 10 2011, 11:57 PM) ...   Mar 11 2011, 09:24 AM
- - Syrinx   http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/march/l...ets-0...   Mar 10 2011, 07:31 PM
- - Gsnorgathon   We could take a cue from the Kepler team: they...   Mar 11 2011, 12:51 AM
|- - Syrinx   QUOTE (Gsnorgathon @ Mar 10 2011, 04:51 P...   Mar 11 2011, 05:56 AM
|- - siravan   QUOTE (Syrinx @ Mar 11 2011, 12:56 AM) It...   Mar 11 2011, 11:50 AM
- - hendric   We could just call them all "Venus-like...   Mar 11 2011, 04:57 AM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (hendric @ Mar 11 2011, 05:57 AM) W...   Mar 11 2011, 10:28 AM
- - Hungry4info   A moon specificially isn't really needed. Plan...   Mar 11 2011, 09:55 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Just noticed a new Manager's Update on March 8...   Mar 12 2011, 06:24 PM
- - Greg Hullender   Another Manager's update: http://www.kepler.ar...   Mar 19 2011, 04:24 PM
- - Syrinx   Kepler definitely has them more frequently. I bel...   Mar 19 2011, 08:13 PM
- - djellison   That very subject has been discussed in this very ...   Mar 19 2011, 08:55 PM
- - Syrinx   Back online. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ke...   Mar 22 2011, 11:15 PM
- - ngunn   I'm not sure when this amazing digram was firs...   Mar 30 2011, 11:09 AM
- - Explorer1   Amazing! Roger Ebert posted it too (not perfec...   Mar 31 2011, 04:57 AM
- - nprev   It's a profound image indeed, and it will reso...   Mar 31 2011, 05:00 AM
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