Thursday, March 5, 2009

Kepler being launched tomorrow

Weeehoooo! Kepler's being launched tomorrow at 10:49 EST, its a satellite that will be searching for Earth-like planets. I hope everything goes off without a hitch!

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/keplerlaunch.html
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/kepler.html

For more reading on a few of the 300 exo-planets we've already found try this article:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/smallplanet.html
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/top-exoplanets.html

Also, one more great link...
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/planets-like-ea.html

Good luck to everyone on the Kepler project!
Oh and they have a podcast available here by the looks...
http://kepler.nasa.gov/

I'd love to work there for a day just to wear their jazzy suits...

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