NASA’s Kepler Mission Wins 2010 Software of Year Award by NASA Software Advisory Panel “NASA’s Kepler mission Science Operations Center software system was named winner of the 2010 NASA Software […]
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Kepler Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting the Same Star “NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or […]
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Kepler Scientists Dispute Sasselov's Public Comments
Kepler Science Status: Statement to Ames Center Director “Recently there have been reports to the effect that Kepler has discovered many Earth-like planets. This is not the case. Analysis of […]
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More Kepler Post Mortems
Confusion Over Kepler’s ‘Earth-Like’ Planets Explained, Science “NASA’s mini fiasco in public communication last week was a scientist’s attempt at public outreach gone awry. Kepler mission co-investigator Dimitar Sasselov of […]
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NASA-Funded Apologist Blames Media for Kepler's Botched PR
Did Kepler Astronomer Realy Jump The Gun?, Ray Villard, Discovery News “Science reporters were primed for this “shoot-ready-aim” response because they are growing impatient with one of NASA’s most exciting […]
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Kepler Mess: We Could Certainly Use Carl Sagan Right Now
Kepler Mission – Errare HumanumEst, Natalie Batalha Kepler Co-Investigator, Beyond The Cradle “Should NASA screen everything that the team plans to say in public? Should we, the Kepler team, screen […]
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Kepler Co-I Sasselov Blames Media For Misunderstanding
Keith’s 27 Jul 6:28 pm EDT note: This was just posted on the Kepler website and at NASA.gov: “Earth-size is not Earth-like: the TED Talk by Dimitar Sasselov: Two weeks […]
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Kepler News: Why Is NASA So Slow To Respond? (Update)
Our galaxy is rich in Earth-sized planets, CNN “Since the time of Nicolaus Copernicus five centuries ago, people have wondered whether there are other planets like Earth in the universe. […]
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Kepler Team Needs To Take PR 101
Data Leak: Galaxy Rich in Earth-Like Planets, Science “NASA didn’t plan it this way, but earlier this month a co-investigator on the Kepler satellite mission in the hunt for other […]
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Kepler Co-Investigator Spills The Beans: Lots of Earth-like Planets
Reader note: “These articles were sparked by a talk that was given by Harvard’s Dimitar Sasselov at TEDGlobal at Oxford this month. It was posted to the TED site last […]