Thu Apr 18, 2013, 11:58 AM
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 NASA to announce new Kepler discovery: Watch it live 11am PT/2pm ET (Original post) |
bananas | Apr 2013 | OP |
| bananas | Apr 2013 | #1 | |
| leftyohiolib | Apr 2013 | #2 | |
| bananas | Apr 2013 | #3 | |
| longship | Apr 2013 | #4 | |
| bananas | Apr 2013 | #5 | |
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| bananas | Apr 2013 | #8 | |
| Victor_c3 | Apr 2013 | #7 | |
| arcane1 | Apr 2013 | #9 | |
| dreamnightwind | Apr 2013 | #10 | |
| Victor_c3 | Apr 2013 | #13 | |
| muriel_volestrangler | Apr 2013 | #11 | |
| pokerfan | Apr 2013 | #12 | |
| Warren DeMontague | Apr 2013 | #15 | |
| Wounded Bear | Apr 2013 | #14 |
Response to leftyohiolib (Reply #2)
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:26 PM
4. Who's they?
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That wasn't the Kepler mission. Wasn't it MSL (Mars Science Laboratory == Curiosity rover)?
And it is very likely that MSL discoveries will change the textbooks. Unfortunately, the guy who made that announcement on the MSL team did not make clear that point. He learned the hard way, I suppose, how not to word a statement to the press. Such is how things are sometimes. Scientists need to learn some media communication skills. 
I suspect this will be a candidate Earth-like planet, something Kepler was designed to discover. Unfortunately, it takes multiple orbits to detect each planet. At an Earth-like distance that means three or four transits will likely be necessary. For Earth, that's three or four years, of course. Who knows what this is? We'll see.
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Response to bananas (Original post)
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 02:39 PM
12. Most Earthlike Planets Found Yet: A "Breakthrough"
Newfound exoplanet Kepler-62f is imagined in an illustration. The shining star to the right is Kepler-62e. Illustration courtesy T. Pyle, Caltech/NASA Planet hunters are significantly closer to their goal of finding an "Earth twin" with the discovery of two planets similar in size to our own, astronomers with NASA's Kepler mission announced today. The planets, described at a NASA press conference, orbit a sun that's cooler than ours but is at the right distance to allow water to remain liquid, which is considered essential for a planet to support life. And because of their sizes and orbits, the newfound planets are likely either rocky—like Earth—or watery, NASA scientists said. The two planets are located 1,200 light-years away in a five-planet system orbiting a star dubbed Kepler-62. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130418-exoplanets-earth-planets-science-space-kepler-nasa/ |
Response to pokerfan (Reply #12)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 11:49 AM
Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)
15. Am I the only one who sees, here, the potential for an old-timey piano ballad?
Response to bananas (Original post)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 11:33 AM
Wounded Bear (54,803 posts)
14. Great stuff!
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