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Post by orin stepanek » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:53 pm

While reading about the Hubble Sweeps I got interested in the Kepler Mission. It is scheduled for launch in 2008.
http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/
This mission is set to look for Earth sized planets. I hope it is a huge success. :)

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Post by craterchains » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:44 pm

Hundreds of billions of galaxies, hundreds of billions of star systems, yep, there are bound to be many billions of planets.

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Post by orin stepanek » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:29 pm

I think once we find these Earth sized planets and the ones with oxygen and water; then we may be able to find alien life forms if there are any. The Kepler Mission may help do that. :)
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Post by orin stepanek » Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:50 pm

Hey! If your interested the Kepler Mission will put your name in space.:) http://namesinspace.seti.org/

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Post by Arramon » Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:23 pm

sweet! Certificate #18861! =))

had my name on the Deep Impact mission also... cert#8449.

Love it when they do this...

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Post by harry » Sat Jun 14, 2008 5:48 am

G'day

Thanks for the link

My kids loved it.

Whats the deep impact link?
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Post by Arramon » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:22 pm

Deep Impact certificates ended awhile ago. Once the probe went *SMACK* into Comet tempel 1. =)

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Post by orin stepanek » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:56 pm

Arramon wrote:Deep Impact certificates ended awhile ago. Once the probe went *SMACK* into Comet tempel 1. =)
Not sure what you mean. :? Kepler hasn't launched yet!
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Post by harry » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:33 am

Hello Orin

I have registered my kids names.
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Post by orin stepanek » Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:43 pm

harry wrote:Hello Orin

I have registered my kids names.
Neat Harry! :)

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Post by Arramon » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:02 pm

orin stepanek wrote:
Arramon wrote:Deep Impact certificates ended awhile ago. Once the probe went *SMACK* into Comet tempel 1. =)
Not sure what you mean. :? Kepler hasn't launched yet!
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que??? Deep Impact Discovery Mission to Comet Tempel 1 happened in 2005 when it struck the little comet bugger. They stopped accepting submissions on 1/31/2004.

Other missions that accepted names to send to space were:

Selene (Moon), end 2007
Phoenix (Mars), end 2007
Dawn (Vesta, Ceres), end 2006
New Horizons (Pluto), end 2005
Deep Impact (Tempel 1), end 2004
Mars Exploration Rover (Mars), end 2003
Stardust (Wild 2), end 1999

and now there's Kepler 2008. =)

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Post by harry » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:17 am

G'day from the land of ozzzzzz

How would you like a ticket to go on one of the space trips?

No return to sender.
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Post by orin stepanek » Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:34 am

harry wrote:G'day from the land of ozzzzzz

How would you like a ticket to go on one of the space trips?

No return to sender.
Hey Harry! I think it will be a long long time before such a trip is comfortable enough. :) An hour of two in a jet is way plenty of time off the ground for me. :shock: The first people going to Mars will have to be super tough and very well trained. :wink:
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Post by harry » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:15 am

Hello Orin

The trip will be worth dying for.

There was a movie with Clint Eastwood,,,,,,,,,,,,,I think it was Space Cowboys,,,,,,,,,,,,I could be wrong.

At the end of the Movie one of the men had a dying wish to land on the moon and die.
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Post by Orca » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:21 pm

Considering how ill-prepared we are in terms protecting astronauts for long durations outside the Earth's magnetic field, we very well grant such a wish.

:shock:

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Post by harry » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:59 am

G'day from the land of ozzzzz


This must be the chat post.

At leat we have them on potty trainng.
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Re: Kepler

Post by orin stepanek » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:47 pm

Last chance to have your name sent up with Kepler! :D
http://namesinspace.seti.org/

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Re: Kepler

Post by astrolabe » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:12 am

Hello craterchains,

Good to hear from you, been a while.
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Re: Kepler

Post by bystander » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:23 am

astrolabe wrote:Hello craterchains,

Good to hear from you, been a while.
:?: craterchains on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 :?:

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Re: Kepler

Post by astrolabe » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:30 am

Hello Bystander,

Wow. Can't win 'em all now can we. Definitely gotta watch with you guys on the job! craterchains was an interesting poster, wishful thinking I guess. :oops: They still don't make these emoticons big enough!!!
Oh well, back under the rock I guess
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Re: Kepler

Post by apodman » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:25 am

astrolabe wrote:Can't win 'em all
Hey, those old threads returning to the top of the list fool me one way or another every time too. Maybe in phpBB4 they will make the old threads look old to help us. I've gone to the phpBB development discussion pages (to check on more serious features), but I have yet to grok the organization over there.

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Re: Kepler

Post by orin stepanek » Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:49 pm

astrolabe wrote:Hello craterchains,

Good to hear from you, been a while.
Sorry Astrolabe: I didn't mean to mess anybody up. I thought it was significant that Thanksgiving was the deadline for getting names put on the disk that is to be launched with Kepler. I guess I could have started a new post; but I already had this one going.
It has been a while since we heard from Craterchains.

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Re: Kepler

Post by bystander » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:18 pm

Hey, Astrolabe!

No problems! You had me thinking I had missed something. Went looking and that was the only post I could find. So, of course, I had to question it. :wink: Last post I know of from CC was in Sept, that Phil Plait Egg APOD.

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Re: Kepler

Post by astrolabe » Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:50 pm

Hello All,

One more gratitude item to add to the list this season is all the staff, NASA, moderators and members-old and new- of APOD. Quite a group if you ask me! 8)

P.S. Orin, it was a good and thoughtful call on your part. Timely too! :idea: :!:
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Re: Kepler

Post by orin stepanek » Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:29 pm

astrolabe wrote:Hello All,

One more gratitude item to add to the list this season is all the staff, NASA, moderators and members-old and new- of APOD. Quite a group if you ask me! 8)

P.S. Orin, it was a good and thoughtful call on your part. Timely too! :idea: :!:
Hi Astrolab! I just hope that Kepler turns out to be a very useful tool in finding smaller planets. We live in a wonderful age when new discoveries are being found all the time. It's hard to get bored. :) It's also hard to keep up. 8)

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