Space Foundation Honors Kepler Mission with Award
The NASA Kepler Mission is being recognized for the discovery of 61 confirmed extrasolar planets and over 2,300 planet applicants in the first 16 months of observations from May 2009 to September 2010. About the Kepler Mission
The Kepler Mission findings include well over 200 Earth-size planet applicants and even more than 900 that are smaller than twice Earth-size. Of the 46 planet applicants located in the habitable zone, the area in the planetary system where fluid water might exist, ten of these applicants are smaller than twice Earth-size. The cumulative catalog consists of : 246 Earth-size, 676 extremely Earth-size, 1,118 Neptune-size, 210 Jupiter-size and 71 applicants that are larger than twice the size of Jupiter. The Mission's planet confirmations include these firsts:. The first unquestionably rocky planet (Kepler-10b). The first six-planet system (Kepler-11). The first small planet in the habitable zone (Kepler-22b). The first Earth-size planet discoveries (Kepler-20e & f).
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Space Foundation Honors Kepler Mission with Award
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Kepler has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Space Foundation’s John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration.
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