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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
- - 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
|- - DFinfrock   QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 31 2011, 06:00 AM) It...   Mar 31 2011, 10:32 PM
|- - Syrinx   QUOTE (DFinfrock @ Mar 31 2011, 02:32 PM)...   Apr 1 2011, 02:01 AM
- - eoincampbell   Thank you very much, ngunn for bringing that brill...   Apr 1 2011, 12:50 AM
- - Paolo   For those with access to Science, there are a few ...   Apr 7 2011, 06:31 PM
- - stevesliva   Kepler releases on at least two of the three: Ech...   Apr 7 2011, 09:50 PM
- - marsophile   Is there any way that Kepler could detect an aster...   Apr 11 2011, 03:29 PM
|- - Drkskywxlt   QUOTE (marsophile @ Apr 11 2011, 11:29 AM...   Apr 11 2011, 04:41 PM
|- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Apr 11 2011, 10:41 AM...   Apr 11 2011, 06:18 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   Exactly. Over a nominal 3-5 year mission, you cou...   Apr 11 2011, 06:44 PM
- - stevesliva   Any earthish planets with an annual occultation wo...   Apr 11 2011, 07:23 PM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (stevesliva @ Apr 11 2011, 01:23 PM...   Apr 12 2011, 02:40 AM
|- - siravan   QUOTE (NGC3314 @ Apr 11 2011, 10:40 PM) ....   Apr 12 2011, 11:01 AM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (siravan @ Apr 12 2011, 06:01 AM) K...   Apr 14 2011, 02:36 AM
|- - Hungry4info   Not to mention a longer baseline for transit timin...   Apr 14 2011, 06:40 AM
- - stevesliva   Huh. Wouldn't have guessed the ground was qui...   Apr 12 2011, 02:55 AM
- - Hungry4info   WISE is out of comission, Deep Impact lacks the ac...   Apr 12 2011, 09:03 AM
- - djellison   And all spacecraft have a consumable that they all...   Apr 12 2011, 01:46 PM
- - Greg Hullender   I'm trying to think of a successful mission th...   Apr 13 2011, 01:35 AM
- - siravan   In a sense, the problem is that observing the same...   Apr 13 2011, 03:48 AM
|- - Syrinx   - Bill Borucki himself has said they will almost c...   Apr 13 2011, 05:51 AM
- - Gsnorgathon   I'm guessing that staring at the same star fie...   Apr 14 2011, 01:54 AM
- - scalbers   Catching up on things I noticed an interesting cha...   Apr 24 2011, 10:54 PM
|- - Rob Pinnegar   QUOTE (scalbers @ Apr 24 2011, 04:54 PM) ...   Apr 27 2011, 12:09 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Apr 26 2011, 04:09 ...   Apr 27 2011, 01:48 PM
|- - dilo   Sorry for silly question, why I still cannot see ...   Apr 27 2011, 05:24 PM
||- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (dilo @ Apr 27 2011, 01:24 PM) .......   Apr 27 2011, 05:56 PM
||- - dilo   Thanks, centsworth_II, I missed it... in the meant...   Apr 27 2011, 06:28 PM
||- - Tom Tamlyn   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Apr 27 2011, 01:56...   May 26 2011, 09:26 PM
|- - Rob Pinnegar   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Apr 27 2011, 07:4...   Apr 27 2011, 09:19 PM
- - Hungry4info   One could just look through the paper that listed ...   Apr 27 2011, 11:27 AM
- - Hungry4info   QUOTE ("dilo")Moreover, I see lot of pos...   Apr 27 2011, 08:08 PM
- - ngunn   I've been similarly confused many times. Earth...   Apr 27 2011, 10:28 PM
|- - AndyG   300 Earths is near enough a Jupiter, and 1000 Jupi...   Apr 27 2011, 10:49 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   As most have heard by now, there have been at leas...   May 26 2011, 12:25 PM
- - Greg Hullender   This article (refered to in the links above) has a...   May 27 2011, 01:09 AM
- - Syrinx   Not strictly Kepler related, but MIT recently host...   Jun 8 2011, 06:48 AM
- - Syrinx   Mission Manager Update arrived today: http://www....   Jun 18 2011, 01:24 AM
- - Drkskywxlt   Eight years!?! Awesome!   Jun 18 2011, 11:09 AM
- - nprev   Yes, that's exciting news! We should have ...   Jun 18 2011, 08:12 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   Here's to our Kepler and eight more years of s...   Jun 18 2011, 09:59 PM
- - Greg Hullender   I think one of the best reasons for a long extende...   Jun 18 2011, 10:06 PM
|- - Tom Womack   The ESA has plans for a followup mission 'PLAT...   Jun 19 2011, 10:52 AM
- - NGC3314   This could get uncomfortable - based on the last f...   Jun 19 2011, 06:47 PM
- - Syrinx   Last I heard Borucki speak, he said there were no ...   Jun 19 2011, 07:01 PM
- - Mongo   I think the way to go would be a TESS-like mission...   Jun 20 2011, 02:57 PM
- - algorimancer   One thing I wonder is why not go with a scanning c...   Jun 20 2011, 03:30 PM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (algorimancer @ Jun 20 2011, 09:30 ...   Jun 20 2011, 10:10 PM
|- - algorimancer   QUOTE (NGC3314 @ Jun 20 2011, 04:10 PM) T...   Jun 21 2011, 12:51 PM
|- - MahFL   I don't think it really matters where Kepler l...   Jun 21 2011, 02:05 PM
|- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (MahFL @ Jun 21 2011, 09:05 AM) I d...   Jun 21 2011, 11:12 PM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jun 21 2011, 06:12 P...   Jun 22 2011, 01:27 PM
|- - MahFL   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jun 22 2011, 12:12 A...   Jun 22 2011, 01:40 PM
- - Explorer1   Isn't Kepler deliberately targeting a more cro...   Jun 22 2011, 01:04 AM
|- - Gsnorgathon   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Jun 21 2011, 05:04 PM)...   Jun 22 2011, 07:20 PM
- - djellison   Rule 1.3 people - you're tip-toeing along the ...   Jun 22 2011, 01:44 PM
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