Author Topic: NASA Kepler Announcment @ 10:00am PST 12/20/2011 (Read 16230 times)

FiahOwl · « **on:** December 20, 2011, 10:31:40 AM »

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smjjames · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2011, 10:45:04 AM »

CNN mentioned about it, but wasn't going to post until they said what the discoveries were.

I half expected the exoplanets app on my iPad to update before they did, heh.

FiahOwl · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2011, 10:45:53 AM »

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smjjames · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2011, 10:55:36 AM »

Quote from: FiahOwl on December 20, 2011, 10:45:53 AM

Quote from: smjjames on December 20, 2011, 10:45:04 AM
CNN mentioned about it, but wasn't going to post until they said what the discoveries were.

I half expected the exoplanets app on my iPad to update before they did, heh.

Lmao. Are you going to watch?

Yea, not sure if they'll show it live on TV or just the live video on the site and the live video on the site isn't likely to be captioned.

Still, the NASA site will definetly update to it.

deoxy99 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 20, 2011, 10:57:27 AM »

Okay, it's been freaking me out. It's "yeah" not "yea". $:-\$

FiahOwl · « **Reply #5 on:** December 20, 2011, 11:03:39 AM »

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smjjames · « **Reply #6 on:** December 20, 2011, 11:04:59 AM »

@deoxy: Okay.....

Also, look at the latest rweet, it says that they're announcing the first EARTH SIZED (not Super Earth, Earth size) planet around a sunlike star. I wonder how far away this particular sun is and whether that planet is in the habitable zone.

Edit: ninja'd by Fiah and boo, they're hot earths, but still. Also, they're in that same system with the larger planet in the habitable zone that was announced a few weeks ago.

FiahOwl · « **Reply #7 on:** December 20, 2011, 11:09:42 AM »

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smjjames · « **Reply #8 on:** December 20, 2011, 11:18:08 AM »

Can someone check if that system follows Bodes Law?

Also, nm, the other planet I was thinking of is Kepler 22b.

Speaking of this kind of thing, I, in fact, have something similar to this forming (or trying to form) in my accretion system. However, I've just passed the first phase, so time will tell, the closest one is about half Mercurys orbit though at 45 days orbit. And I have loads of smaller objects orbiting close in, wonder when those will get ejected

FiahOwl · « **Reply #9 on:** December 20, 2011, 11:21:01 AM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 20, 2011, 04:19:56 PM »

Wow this system is really interesting. Sadly, the Kepler team is releasing all the interesting systems first. Once we reach Kepler-100 or so they're going to just be "meh another planet, so what?"

FiahOwl · « **Reply #11 on:** December 20, 2011, 04:24:52 PM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 20, 2011, 04:27:33 PM »

I never said here, nor soon. Just, eventually. It might be 3 years before Kepler-100.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2011, 11:46:01 AM »

Code: [Select]

 Name              Mj     Rj          p             a       e     i   Status   discovery last updated
 Kepler-20 b	0.027	0.17	3.6961219	0.04537	< 0.32	86.5	R	2011	21/12/11
 Kepler-20 c	0.051	0.27	10.854092	0.093	< 0.4	88.39	R	2011	21/12/11
 Kepler-20 d	0.06	0.25	77.61185	0.3453	< 0.6	89.57	R	2011	21/12/11
 Kepler-20 e	0.0097	0.87	6.098493	0.0507	-	87.5	R	2011	21/12/11
 Kepler-20 f	0.045	0.09	19.57706	0.11	-	88.68	R	2011	21/12/11

deoxy99 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2011, 12:11:07 PM »

Yay, no headers for the data! But seriously, what does everything mean?

atomic7732 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 23, 2011, 07:23:30 PM »

I tried putting them but I didn't want to reformat them cause they came out wierd.

Name, mass, radius, period, a, e, i, Status, year of discovery, info last updated

Code: [Select]

  KOI-55 b	0.014	0.068	0.2401	0.006	-	-	R	2011	22/12/11
 KOI-55 c	0.0021	0.078	0.34289	0.0076	-	-	R	2011	22/12/11

More sub-Earths

blotz · « **Reply #16 on:** December 24, 2011, 03:48:48 PM »

Small habitual planets would be fun to jump up and down like Kelper 20e but a large planet like Kelper20f would be boring. Btw, are the pictures to scale? (The reflections are so fake)

vh · « **Reply #17 on:** December 24, 2011, 03:54:07 PM »

A habitible planet around a blackhole would be cool

Quote from: atomic7732 on December 20, 2011, 04:19:56 PM

Wow this system is really interesting. Sadly, the Kepler team is releasing all the interesting systems first. Once we reach Kepler-100 or so they're going to just be "meh another planet, so what?"

FiahOwl · « **Reply #18 on:** December 24, 2011, 03:54:16 PM »

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vh · « **Reply #20 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:04:46 PM »

Lol are u on the kepler team? Kepler is just find all systems right?

blotz · « **Reply #21 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:05:53 PM »

The shadow looks to sudden. That's why it looked fake

vh · « **Reply #22 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:07:09 PM »

Sudden=time
Picture=not so time
Kolwut

blotz · « **Reply #23 on:** December 24, 2011, 04:08:40 PM »

What so you mean by that?

atomic7732 · « **Reply #24 on:** December 25, 2011, 12:32:57 AM »

Quote from: FiahOwl on December 24, 2011, 03:55:15 PM

Quote from: atomic7732 on December 20, 2011, 04:19:56 PM
Wow this system is really interesting. Sadly, the Kepler team is releasing all the interesting systems first. Once we reach Kepler-100 or so they're going to just be "meh another planet, so what?"

Er, we release the systems we find to the public as we find them.

Nope. There's 2000+ planet candidates at this moment. Releasing data on 1 or 2 systems a month... That's not "as we find them." As of last year, there were about 700. When we only had up to Kepler-8 b.

FiahOwl · « **Reply #25 on:** December 25, 2011, 08:14:15 AM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #26 on:** December 25, 2011, 10:30:16 AM »

Which they can choose which candidates to get radial velocity data on to find the mass, and thus confirm.

The Kepler team isn't going by random.

blotz · « **Reply #27 on:** December 25, 2011, 07:40:06 PM »

Quote from: mudkipz on December 24, 2011, 03:54:07 PM

A habitible planet around a blackhole would be cool

Not if you lived on it.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 25, 2011, 07:55:22 PM »

But the planet is habitable!

Darvince · « **Reply #29 on:** December 25, 2011, 08:44:46 PM »

Actually that's impossible as the habitable zone for the black hole would be inside the black hole, as while a black hole is extremely hot (billions kelvin), it emits very little heat, so there would be no sensible habitable zone.