Starship Asterisk*

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.

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

Norval

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.
Orin

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

Orin

sweet! Certificate #18861! =))

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

Love it when they do this...

G'day

Thanks for the link

My kids loved it.

Whats the deep impact link?

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

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!
Orin

Hello Orin

I have registered my kids names.

harry wrote:Hello Orin

I have registered my kids names.

Neat Harry!

Orin

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!
Orin

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. =)

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.

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. The first people going to Mars will have to be super tough and very well trained.
Orin

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.

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.

G'day from the land of ozzzzz


This must be the chat post.

At leat we have them on potty trainng.

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

Orin

Hello craterchains,

Good to hear from you, been a while.

astrolabe wrote:Hello craterchains,

Good to hear from you, been a while.

craterchains on Mon, 16 Oct 2006

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. They still don't make these emoticons big enough!!!
Oh well, back under the rock I guess

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.

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.

Orin

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. Last post I know of from CC was in Sept, that Phil Plait Egg APOD.

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!

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!

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)

Orin