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	Extrasolar planet
		Extrasolar planets were indirectly discovered during the 1990s as a result of improved telescope technology, such as CCD and computer-based image processing[?] along with the Hubble Space Telescope.
		On November 27, 2001, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced that they had detected the atmosphere of the planet orbiting HD 209458, from its absorption of light when passing in front of its star.
		The Kepler Space Mission will be launched in the next few years.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ex/Exoplanet.html (919 words)

	ipedia.com: Johannes Kepler Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kepler was a professor of mathematics at the University of Graz, court mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II, and court astrologer to General Wallenstein.
		Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 at the Imperial Free City of Weil der Stadt (now part of the Stuttgart Region in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, 30 km west of Stuttgart's city center).
		To his disappointment, Kepler's attempts to fix the orbits of the planets within a set of polyhedrons never worked out, but it is a testimony to his integrity as a scientist that when the evidence mounted against the cherished theory he worked so hard to prove, he abandoned it.
	www.ipedia.com /johannes_kepler.html (1708 words)

	SPACE.com -- Kepler Mission to Find Earth-Like Planets Gets Green Light
		The Kepler satellite will orbit the Sun and study some 100,000 stars for four years, looking for planets that are similar in size to Earth and in similar orbits around their stars.
		Kepler and Dawn were selected from 26 proposals made in January 2001.
		"Kepler and Dawn are exactly the kind of missions NASA should be launching, missions that tackle some of the most important questions in science yet do it for a very modest cost," said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for space science at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
	www.space.com /news/kepler_go.html (971 words)

	NAI: News Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Kepler mission, which will use a space telescope specifically designed to search for habitable planets, is one of three candidates for NASA's next Discovery Program mission.
		To measure small changes in brightness, the Kepler mission will hunt for planets using a specialized one-meter diameter telescope called a photometer that will be launched into orbit around the sun, away from the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere.
		The Kepler mission will view an amount of sky about equal to the size of a human hand held at arm's length, or about equal in area to two "scoops" of the sky made with the Big Dipper constellation.
	nai.arc.nasa.gov /news_stories/news_detail.cfm?ID=217 (767 words)

	Stars and Galaxies - Missions
		This mission is an infrared telescope that will study the early universe, old galaxies and forming stars, and will detect dust discs around stars where planets may be forming.
		This mission is an orbiting interferometer, which will link multiple telescopes to function in unison as a much larger "virtual telescope." The main goal is to detect planets of varying sizes-from huge planets the size of Jupiter down to planets a few times as massive as Earth.
		This mission will use multiple telescopes working together to take family portraits of stars and their orbiting planets and determine which planets may have the right chemistry to sustain life.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /stars_galaxies/missions/missions_index.html (594 words)

	Planet Quest: Missions - Kepler
		Kepler, a NASA Discovery mission, is a spaceborne telescope designed to survey distant stars to determine the prevalence of Earthlike planets.
		Kepler must monitor many thousands of stars simultaneously, since the chance of any one planet being aligned along the line-of-sight is only about 1/2 of a percent.
		Over a four-year period, Kepler will continuously view an amount of sky about equal to the size of a human hand held at arm's length or about equal in area to two "scoops" of the sky made with the Big Dipper constellation.
	planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov /Kepler/kepler_index.cfm (466 words)

	JPL Future Missions
		The Herschel Space Observatory is a space-based telescope that will study the universe by the light of the far-infrared and submillimeter portions of the spectrum.
		The James Webb Space Telescope, an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope scheduled for launch in August 2013.
		This mission is an orbiting interferometer, which will link multiple telescopes to function in unison as a much larger "virtual telescope." The main goal is to detect planets of varying sizes -- from huge planets the size of Jupiter down to planets a few times as massive as Earth.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/future_missions.cfm (690 words)

	Space Today Online -- Solar System Exploration -- NASA Discovery Missions
		The second Discovery mission to launch was Mars Pathfinder, which blasted off from Earth on December 4, 1996, to demonstrate a low cost method of delivering a set of science instruments and a Rover to the surface of Mars.
		With its Sojourner rover, the Pathfinder mission to Mars was a world-wide news event in 1997 because of its unique new landing system and the first-ever operation of a remote-control robot rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
		That means it is not a complete Discovery Mission, but rather merely one piece of a larger mission giving the U.S. scientific community a chance to participate in missions of non-U.S. government agencies by providing funding for a science instrument, hardware components of a science instrument, or expertise in critical areas of a mission.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/DiscoverMissions.html (2286 words)

	Science Notes 2000--In Search of Small Planets
		The mission, and the "Kepler" instrument they hope will carry it off, are still far away from that final launch into space.
		To do it, the Kepler team had to come up with a new kind of planet detector with the precision to detect minute light changes, the sensitivity to monitor a distant patch of sky in the galaxy, and the ability to keep track of hundreds of stars at once.
		The mission team estimates that only one of 200 Earthlike planets would circle their stars at such an angle that they might pass in front of Kepler’s "line of sight" and dim the star.
	scicom.ucsc.edu /SciNotes/0001/planets.htm (3198 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| NASA funds next phase for planet-finding satellite
		The Kepler Mission differs from previous ways of looking for planets, which have led to the discovery of about 100 giant Jupiter-sized planets.
		Kepler will look for the "transit" signature that occurs each time a planet crosses the line-of-sight between a planet's parent star, the one it orbits, and the observer.
		Gemini 12: The NASA Mission Reports covers the voyage of James Lovell and Buzz Aldrin that capped the Gemini program's efforts to prove the technologies and techniques that would be needed for the Apollo Moon landings.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0210/28kepler (749 words)

	Scientific FrontLine / COROT and the new chapter of planetary searches
		COROT is expected to greatly enlarge the number of known exoplanets during its two-year mission and provide the first detection of rocky planets, perhaps just a few times the mass of the Earth.
		Kepler works the same way as COROT, looking for planetary transits, and is expected to find the first Earth-sized planets in similar orbits to our world.
		Instead of a larger space telescope with a smaller field of view, the new proposal uses hundreds of 10-cm telescopes in parallel.
	www.sflorg.com /spacenews/sn111406_01.html (876 words)

	The Kepler Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Kepler Mission is a project designed to search for Earth-like planets (terrestrial planets) outside of our solar system in other areas of our galaxy.
		The Kepler Mission is scheduled for launch in 2007 and will use a unique space-borne telescope called a photometer to search our galaxy for earth-size or even smaller planets.
		While The Kepler Mission may help to answer the long standing question of whether there are others like us, or other life forms, in the universe, it will also allow astronomers to study and explore the diversity of planetary systems more deeply than ever before.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~ernie81 (572 words)

	Wired 9.06: Shadow Science
		Kepler is a Zen spacecraft, stripped of distractions and living in the moment.
		The other two missions on the Discovery shortlist - a spacecraft that would orbit Jupiter's poles to look for clues to its interior structure, and a spacecraft that would study two large and very different asteroids, Ceres and Vesta - wouldn't be there if they didn't have a shot at the prize.
		Kepler is more ambitious than they are, however, because it is Borucki's intention not just to use the idea, but to do it justice.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/9.06/kepler_pr.html (4994 words)

	Future Space Missions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mission: Mission The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter proposed mission is to orbit three planet-sized moons of Jupiter -- Callisto, Ganymede and Europa -- which may harbor vast oceans beneath their icy surfaces.
		Mission: The probe is expected to circle the moon for at least one year and return detailed maps of the lunar surface, data on the moon’s radiation levels and an in-depth look at its polar regions for resources that could be tapped by future astronauts.
		Mission: To be the successor to XMM-Newton in studying the universe.
	www.ccastronomy.org /space_missions_future.htm (5119 words)

	NAI: News Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kepler will monitor many thousands of stars simultaneously, since the chance of any one planet being aligned along the line of sight is only about 1/2 of 1 percent.
		NASA’s Discovery Program is designed to provide frequent, low-cost access to space for planetary missions and missions to search for planets around other stars.
		The selected science missions must be ready for launch before Sept. 30, 2006, within the Discovery Program's cap on each mission's cost to NASA of $299 million.
	nai.arc.nasa.gov /news_stories/news_detail.cfm?article=old/kepler.htm (680 words)

	DISCOVERY ::: MISSIONS ::: KEPLER
		The scientific goal of the Kepler Mission is to explore the structure and diversity of planetary systems, with a special emphasis on the detection of Earth-size planets.
		Kepler's photometer (a device that measures the brightness of light) will be like a giant camcorder with a 95 cm (37 inch) diameter lens, flying through space.
		Kepler would then be a stepping stone to the next extensive search for habitable planets and life, the Terrestrial Planet Finder.
	discovery.nasa.gov /kepler.html (517 words)

	MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
		The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) manages the mission for NASA and is designing and building the spacecraft, collaborating with industry partners GenCorp Aerojet (propulsion system) and Composite Optics Inc. (spacecraft structure).
		After MESSENGER, the next mission planned to Mercury is the BepiColombo project of the European Space Agency and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Japan.
		Kepler, planned for a fall 2007 launch, will monitor 100,000 stars similar to our Sun in search of Earth-size (or even smaller) planets.
	messenger.jhuapl.edu /faq/faq_mission.html (1804 words)

	The Hunt for Exoplanets - Kepler, the Transit Spotter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This dimming may be caused by a "transit," when a little world passes in front of the star and blocking a bit of its light.
		With a recent announcement of a new transit planet found among them, this project has shown that it is a means of searching for planets around other stars.
		Kepler will be hunting for transits of stars throughout our galaxy.
	www.mos.org /cst-archive/article/4830/4.html (194 words)

	SPACE.com -- Kepler: The Search is On
		Kepler, on the other hand, will look beyond the neighborhood of the Sun to seek evidence for Earth-sized planets circling distant stars.
		Kepler is a photometer -- an astronomical light meter -- that will measure the light output of many stars simultaneously.
		When Kepler sees the transit of an Earth-sized planet, the light from the star will decrease in proportion to the size of the planet and its distance from the star.
	www.space.com /searchforlife/seti_kepler_020110.html (1077 words)

	Kepler (Discovery 10)
		The scientific goal of the Kepler Mission is to explore the structure and diversity of planetary systems.
		The Kepler instrument is a 0.95-meter aperture differential photometer with a 105 deg
		It is pointed at and records data from just a single group of stars for the four year duration of the mission.
	space.skyrocket.de /doc_sdat/kepler.htm (315 words)

	Space Today Online -- Faraway Planets Orbiting Distance Stars
		In 2001, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the dimming of starlight during a transit of an exoplanet at the star HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus found that the giant planet consists mostly of gas.
		Eclipse is a proposed Discovery mission to perform the first sensitive imaging study of nearby planetary systems and their evolutionary stages from formation as young stellar objects to their demise as planetary nebulae.
		During a three-year science mission, Eclipse would directly detect and characterize Jupiter-class planets, zodiacal dust structures, and brown dwarf companions associated with stars in the solar neighborhood; survey the protoplanetary disks of nearby molecular clouds; and study the dissolution of planetary systems in the winds of dying stars.
	www.spacetoday.org /DeepSpace/Stars/Planets/PlanetFindingMissions.html (1897 words)

	Kepler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kepler’s primary science objective is to detect and measure the frequency of occurrences of Earth-sized planets in a distant star’s habitable zone.
		A second objective of the Kepler mission is to study the variety of sizes and orbits of these planets and to determine if there are additional members of each of these planetary systems.
		Ball Aerospace is employing its instrument expertise from successes such as Hubble Space Telescope in the photometer for Kepler and the spacecraft design used in Deep Impact for providing power, communications and telescope pointing.
	www.ballaerospace.com /kepler.html (406 words)

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		This special purpose space mission that has been proposed to NASA Headquarter's Discovery Program as a practical method for detecting Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets, that is, rocky and
		These are used to isolate the effects of faint background stars, bright stars, smearing, etc. Some of these have very nearby stars as faint as mv=19 to demonstrate that stars five magnitudes fainter than the target star are not a problem even when spacecraft jitter is simulated.
		There is a crowded portion of the plate with 1540 stars having the same star field density to mv=19 as the actual Cygnus region to be viewed by the Kepler Mission.
	www.lenoxlaser.com /pressreleases/kepler.html (270 words)

	ESA - Space Science - COROT overview
		The latter were manufactured in ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) by the Research and Scientific Support Department as one contribution of ESA to the COROT mission.
		The field of view is a square of 2.8 x 2.8°, half for the seismology mission, the other half for the exoplanet mission.
		COROT is a mission led by the French national space agency, CNES.
	www.esa.int /science/corot (880 words)

	Wired 9.06: Shadow Science
		Missions have now visited the four rocky inner planets, the asteroids that lie beyond them, the gas giants even farther out, and the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, farther out still.
		A set of four space telescopes, all larger than the Hubble, might do the trick; so might a single telescope with a mirror 11 times bigger than the Hubble's and considerably smoother.
		And Borucki and his colleagues claim that by using Kepler to look at huge numbers of stars for years at a time and carefully sifting through the terabytes of data thus produced, they can deliver evidence of Earth-like planets - not just a few, but a few hundred.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/9.06/kepler.html (1068 words)

	Kepler Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The challenge the Kepler Mission faces is detecting terrestrial planets, planets 30 to 600 times less massive than Jupiter.
		"Because the Kepler Mission's spacecraft is being built as a system, if one aspect is weak, it will affect the entire system." Despite this pressure, Dunham says he foresees no conceptual design problems and has confidence that all of the mission's details will be worked out effectively.
		The Kepler Mission represents the next step in scientists' continued efforts to discover whether there is life on other planets.
	www.lowell.edu /Press/releases/recent_releases/kepler_0102_rls.html (1077 words)

	Space Quotes to Ponder
		"The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.
		In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race.
		We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it.
	www.sylviaengdahl.com /space/quotes.htm (8702 words)

	Orbital Mechanics
		The launch of a satellite or space vehicle consists of a period of powered flight during which the vehicle is lifted above the Earth's atmosphere and accelerated to orbital velocity by a rocket, or launch vehicle.
		A space vehicle's orbit may be determined from the position and the velocity of the vehicle at the beginning of its free flight.
		For example, a satellite might be released in a low-Earth parking orbit, transferred to some mission orbit, go through a series of resphasings or alternate mission orbits, and then move to some final orbit at the end of its useful life.
	www.braeunig.us /space/orbmech.htm (6414 words)

	Kepler Mission
		A proposed mission in NASA's Discovery Program designed to detect and characterize Earth-class planets by photometry.
		Kepler's main instrument is a 1-meter aperture photometer with a 12° field of view which will continuously and simultaneously monitor the light from 90,000 main sequence stars brighter than 14th magnitude in a star field in Cygnus.
		Planets will be discovered and characterized by the tiny periodic variations their transits cause in a star's measured light output.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/K/Kepler.html (164 words)

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