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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
- - Hungry4info   I'm not sure why the fraction of false positiv...   Jun 22 2011, 07:39 PM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jun 22 2011, 02:39 P...   Jun 22 2011, 09:07 PM
- - Explorer1   Ah yes, now I remember, thanks. Let's hope Kep...   Jun 22 2011, 08:19 PM
- - siravan   Interesting article in Sky & Telescope: http:/...   Jul 27 2011, 01:57 PM
- - Syrinx   http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/n...m-201...   Aug 12 2011, 12:59 AM
- - Habitable Zoner   There is a nice news article in the latest issue o...   Sep 7 2011, 06:05 PM
|- - K-P   QUOTE (Habitable Zoner @ Sep 7 2011, 09:0...   Sep 10 2011, 01:26 PM
|- - Habitable Zoner   QUOTE (K-P @ Sep 10 2011, 09:26 AM) ...   Sep 12 2011, 05:24 PM
- - Hungry4info   Four planets at KOI-730. http://exoplanet.eu/star...   Sep 7 2011, 09:04 PM
- - brellis   Thanks for the salience, HZ :-) Amazing that they...   Sep 7 2011, 10:04 PM
- - Hungry4info   Kepler's really pulling in the nice ones: Kepl...   Sep 8 2011, 09:53 PM
- - Jyril   Kepler-12b, an extremely inflated planet (M = 0.43...   Sep 10 2011, 11:20 AM
- - remcook   About this? http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXi...   Sep 12 2011, 07:19 AM
- - remcook   ah! http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1134/   Sep 12 2011, 04:41 PM
- - Mongo   The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets ...   Sep 13 2011, 01:15 AM
- - Stu   Fascinating news, and a great achievement to be su...   Sep 13 2011, 11:13 AM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (Stu @ Sep 13 2011, 06:13 AM) Almos...   Sep 13 2011, 03:15 PM
|- - Fran Ontanaya   QUOTE (Stu @ Sep 13 2011, 01:13 PM) The u...   Sep 13 2011, 09:19 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   Although it's extrapolating beyond the data, I...   Sep 13 2011, 11:15 AM
- - Stu   Absolutely!   Sep 13 2011, 11:42 AM
- - Stu   Congratulations. Good to know you're paying at...   Sep 13 2011, 03:48 PM
- - Juramike   Yeah, finding a potential "Venus-like" o...   Sep 13 2011, 08:00 PM
- - djellison   Can we save the meaningless semantic argument for ...   Sep 13 2011, 09:38 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   Predictably, the Kepler team has scheduled a press...   Sep 13 2011, 10:46 PM
- - stevesliva   More news from the conference: http://www.astronom...   Sep 13 2011, 11:31 PM
- - djellison   A reminder about rule 1.3 - a rule this thread is ...   Sep 13 2011, 11:38 PM
- - Explorer1   Conf. starting soon... Circumbinary planet! K...   Sep 15 2011, 06:01 PM
- - Paolo   for those having access to Science, Kepler-16: A T...   Sep 15 2011, 06:46 PM
|- - Reed   QUOTE (Paolo @ Sep 15 2011, 11:46 AM) for...   Sep 16 2011, 04:49 AM
|- - ngunn   Thanks Reed for those links. I don't fully tru...   Sep 16 2011, 10:21 PM
- - ngunn   The abstract alone makes extraordinary and surpris...   Sep 15 2011, 07:05 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 15 2011, 12:05 PM) Doe...   Sep 17 2011, 10:57 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Sep 17 2011, 11:5...   Sep 18 2011, 10:09 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (ngunn @ Sep 18 2011, 03:09 AM) So ...   Sep 18 2011, 07:30 PM
|- - kap   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Sep 18 2011, 12:3...   Sep 19 2011, 10:45 PM
- - Paolo   the paper say they investigated the stability of t...   Sep 15 2011, 07:25 PM
- - marsophile   I noticed at the press conference they flashed a g...   Sep 15 2011, 08:18 PM
|- - Drkskywxlt   QUOTE (marsophile @ Sep 15 2011, 03:18 PM...   Sep 16 2011, 01:54 AM
- - Mongo   This one almost slipped past me, but if their adju...   Sep 16 2011, 01:53 PM
|- - dilo   so many M-class possible planets!   Sep 17 2011, 05:10 AM
- - Explorer1   Mind, these are still only 'candidates', a...   Sep 16 2011, 10:44 PM
|- - Drkskywxlt   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Sep 16 2011, 05:44 PM)...   Sep 17 2011, 11:47 AM
- - nprev   It's an exciting discovery, but frankly I...   Sep 18 2011, 08:50 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   If you're talking about the lack of gas giants...   Sep 19 2011, 10:55 PM
|- - marsophile   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Sep 19 201...   Sep 28 2011, 02:45 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Yep. No stable orbits from about 2.5 AU out to 87 ...   Sep 19 2011, 11:50 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=38486...   Sep 22 2011, 02:16 PM
|- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Sep 22 2011, 09:16 AM...   Sep 22 2011, 04:28 PM
|- - Drkskywxlt   The one is 2.65 R-earth, so that's less than N...   Sep 22 2011, 05:45 PM
- - Hungry4info   That seems reasonable. Hot Jupiters aren't exp...   Sep 28 2011, 11:24 AM
- - Greg Hullender   I guess the reasoning is that hot Jupiters form ou...   Sep 29 2011, 05:27 PM
- - Habitable Zoner   Kepler-18b, 18c, and 18d have been announced. They...   Oct 5 2011, 12:58 PM
|- - Habitable Zoner   There is finally a new mission manager update here...   Nov 2 2011, 11:58 AM
|- - siravan   QUOTE (Habitable Zoner @ Nov 2 2011, 06:5...   Nov 2 2011, 05:00 PM
- - belleraphon1   The First Kepler Science Conference http://kepler....   Dec 4 2011, 10:16 PM
- - Explorer1   Will that be the only streaming link? It's not...   Dec 5 2011, 12:50 AM
- - belleraphon1   Only link I know of is the one for the arc stream ...   Dec 5 2011, 12:18 PM
- - Explorer1   Here we go: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kep...   Dec 5 2011, 07:40 PM
- - Mongo   The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog MOD EDIT: One th...   Dec 5 2011, 10:53 PM
|- - Drkskywxlt   QUOTE (Mongo @ Dec 5 2011, 05:53 PM) Conf...   Dec 6 2011, 05:36 AM
- - belleraphon1   Marcy presentation RV Follow-Up of Small Planets f...   Dec 6 2011, 12:18 AM
- - belleraphon1   Today's Kepler press briefing http://www.spac...   Dec 6 2011, 12:59 AM
|- - ChrisC   QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Dec 5 2011, 07:59 P...   Dec 7 2011, 02:19 AM
- - Stu   And the "Adding Two and Two to Get Ten" ...   Dec 6 2011, 06:38 AM
- - Julius   Very well presented conference on this new discove...   Dec 6 2011, 03:33 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (Julius @ Dec 6 2011, 04:33 PM) How...   Dec 6 2011, 09:05 PM
- - belleraphon1   Kepler’s Quest for New Worlds Public Talk Dr. Nata...   Dec 7 2011, 12:27 PM
|- - Marz   QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Dec 7 2011, 06:27 A...   Dec 7 2011, 05:32 PM
- - Syrinx   For those in the CA Bay Area: -------------------...   Dec 7 2011, 09:07 PM
|- - marsophile   QUOTE (Syrinx @ Dec 7 2011, 01:07 PM) SET...   Dec 8 2011, 08:49 PM
- - belleraphon1   KEPLER Science Conference sessions are being archi...   Dec 8 2011, 12:26 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   Just FYI...Kepler has NOT found any exomoons let a...   Dec 9 2011, 03:33 PM
- - Mongo   I dug into the site, and it appears that when they...   Dec 9 2011, 08:16 PM
- - marsophile   http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.htm...   Dec 20 2011, 02:52 AM
- - stevesliva   Is there a schematic view of this new Kepler-20 sy...   Dec 20 2011, 09:29 PM
|- - Syrinx   QUOTE On Dec. 20, 2011, astronomers announced the ...   Dec 20 2011, 10:35 PM
- - brellis   It will take a long time to detect an earth-ish pl...   Dec 21 2011, 12:12 AM
- - belleraphon1   Journal publications are here: Two Earth-sized pl...   Dec 21 2011, 01:46 PM
|- - Marz   QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Dec 21 2011, 07:46 ...   Dec 21 2011, 04:21 PM
- - brellis   In that context, there could be an earth-ish plane...   Dec 21 2011, 06:05 PM
- - Greg Hullender   Very briefly every 20k years. I've always been...   Dec 21 2011, 06:32 PM
- - mchan   The Kepler-20 orbits are not that elliptical (e...   Dec 22 2011, 04:00 AM
- - brellis   How many of the 150,000 stars in the Kepler survey...   Dec 26 2011, 06:13 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (brellis @ Dec 25 2011, 11:13 PM) W...   Dec 26 2011, 09:49 PM
- - Astro0   Google came up with these: Perhaps not a perfect ...   Dec 26 2011, 07:29 AM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (Astro0 @ Dec 26 2011, 08:29 AM) .....   Dec 26 2011, 05:43 PM
- - brellis   Thanks Astro! The PlanetQuest spreadsheet is ...   Dec 26 2011, 02:06 PM
- - Vultur   "First two extrasolar worlds ever confirmed t...   Dec 26 2011, 11:16 PM
- - Explorer1   Yes, pulsar planets are generally excluded from th...   Dec 27 2011, 12:06 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Planet of PSR B1257+12 D is estimated at 0.0004 of...   Dec 27 2011, 04:25 PM
- - antipode   Maybe there will be some announcements along preci...   Dec 27 2011, 09:53 PM
- - Syrinx   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/...20126...   Jan 26 2012, 11:03 PM
- - belleraphon1   WONDEROUS! and WEIRD ... What a Universe we in...   Jan 27 2012, 12:16 PM
- - brellis   Kepler has found lots of 'Hot Jupiters' in...   Feb 17 2012, 03:11 AM
|- - Gsnorgathon   Wouldn't a hot KBO just be a really big comet?   Feb 17 2012, 04:27 AM
- - nprev   ...yep. And unless they were MUCH rockier than our...   Feb 17 2012, 06:40 AM
- - brellis   Seems like the very shallow end of speculation to ...   Feb 17 2012, 08:33 AM
- - marsophile   http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5852 New release: more ...   Feb 28 2012, 04:27 PM
- - Syrinx   Thanks for the link!   Feb 28 2012, 09:36 PM
- - belleraphon1   KEPLER 02.28.2012 release news http://kepler.nasa....   Feb 29 2012, 07:26 PM
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