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NASA Chat: The Quest for Planets
01.14.11 - Natalie Batalha of the NASA Kepler Mission Team was online answering your questions about a new planet finding on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011.
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NASA'S Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet
01.10.11 - Kepler confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.
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NASA Hosting Web Chat about the Quest for New Planets
01.07.11 - NASA invites the public to join an online chat with a Kepler Mission team member who will answer your questions about exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, and a new planet finding on Monday, Jan. 10, at 12:30 p.m. PST live from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference in Seattle.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Jan. 07, 2011
01.07.11 - The Kepler Project Team successfully returned the spacecraft to normal operations on Jan. 6, 2011.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Dec. 30, 2010
12.30.10 - In response to the Dec. 22, 2010 Safe Mode event on the Kepler spacecraft, the mission team has brought in several experts and begun a detailed anomaly investigation.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Dec. 22, 2010
12.22.10 - On Dec. 22, 2010, Kepler experienced a safe mode event.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Dec. 14, 2010
12.14.10 - During a regularly scheduled contact with the Kepler spacecraft on Dec. 13, 2010, the project team discovered Kepler had experienced an anomaly. Kepler was found in coarse point attitude, as opposed to finepoint.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Dec. 06, 2010
12.06.10 - The Kepler project team completed another science data download Nov. 22-23, 2010.
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Kepler Mission Leaders to Receive Inaugural Lancelot Berkeley Prize
11.05.10 - The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is pleased to announce that the first Lancelot M. Berkeley - New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy is being awarded to William J. Borucki and David G. Koch of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Oct. 29, 2010
10.29.10 - The Kepler project team completed another science data download Oct. 23, 2010.
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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Takes Pulse of Distant Stars
10.26.10 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- An international cadre of scientists that used data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday the detection of stellar oscillations, or "starquakes,” that yield new insights about the size, age and evolution of stars.
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International Team of Astronomers to Discuss Kepler Findings
10.22.10 - The Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC) at Aarhus University in Denmark will hold a media teleconference on Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 8 a.m. PDT to discuss the latest discoveries about stars and their structures using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft.
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Kepler Featured in Astronomy Magazine →
10.06.10 - The Nov. 2010 issue of Astronomy magazine has a cover article on Kepler.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Wins 2010 Software of Year Award
10.04.10 - NASA's Kepler mission Science Operations Center software system was named winner of the 2010 NASA Software of the Year Award by the NASA Software Advisory Panel.
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Kepler Mission Research Paper Honored by Thomson Reuters
10.01.10 - A Kepler Mission research paper written to serve as “the standard reference for the mission,” has been determined by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators (SM) to be the most-cited paper in the Space Science Emerging Research Front for October 2010.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Sept. 28, 2010
09.28.10 - The Kepler Project Team completed another quarterly roll of the spacecraft Sept. 22-23, 2010.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting the Same Star
08.26.10 - NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, August 24, 2010
08.24.10 - The Kepler team continues with its very busy operations and data analysis activities.
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NASA To Announce Latest Findings by Kepler Mission Spacecraft
08.23.10 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA will hold a media teleconference Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, at 10 a.m. PDT to discuss the Kepler spacecraft’s latest discovery about an intriguing planetary system.
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Earth-size is not Earth-like
07.27.10 - The TED Talk by Dimitar Sasselov