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Kepler probe launch in 3 days…

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Here’s where it’s flying out of:


I’m going because the code we’ve (http://www.planetquest.org/) developed for detecting extrasolar planets orbiting binary star systems is loaded on the probe. And, hopefully, this means we’ll get a ton of data back that we can use to fully launch the project. No more data collection from a patchwork of terrestrial-bound telescopes!