The Kepler Mission: A wide-field transit
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Gibor Basri; William J. Borucki; David Koch
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The Kepler Mission is a NASA Discovery mission which will continuously monitor the brightness of at least 100,000 main sequence stars, to detect the transits of terrestrial and larger planets. It is scheduled to be launched in 2007 into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. It is a wide-field photom