NASA - NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Planetary Discovery

Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., hemos recibido información de la Agencia Espacial NASA, sobre que el día jueves 18 de abril, se informará sobre los últimos descubrimientos del Telescopio Kepler, como es bien conocido la Misión Kepler, tiene un objetivo que consiste en detectar uno o varios exo planetas que tengan las característica de La Tierra y con ello nos asegura que hay vida extraterrestre, nosotros si creemos que existe vida fuera del Sistema Solar, y ellos han venido y vienen constantemente, el problema es que nosotros los terrícolas aún no desciframos el Código Galáctico de Símbolos y Signos del Universo, que es el idioma universal y sideral y no hemos podido comunicarnos con ellos.....

Los invito a leer la versión original en inglés........

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A Moon-size Line Up

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star like our sun, approximately 210 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.

The line up compares artist's concepts of the planets in the Kepler-37 system to the moon and planets in the solar system.

The smallest planet, Kepler-37b, is slightly larger than our moon, measuring about one-third the size of Earth. Kepler-37c, the second planet, is slightly smaller than Venus, measuring almost three-quarters the size of Earth. Kepler-37d, the third planet, is twice the size of Earth.

A "year" on these planets is very short. Kepler-37b orbits its host star every 13 days at less than one-third the distance Mercury is to the sun. The other two planets, Kepler-37c and Kepler-37d, orbit their star every 21 and 40 days. All three planets have orbits lying less than the distance Mercury is to the sun, suggesting that they are very hot, inhospitable worlds.

Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

 

 WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.

The briefing will be held in the Syvertson Auditorium, Building N-201, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and be broadcast live on NASA Television and on the agency's website.

Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. Launched in 2009, the Kepler space telescope is detecting planets and planet candidates with a wide range of sizes and orbital distances to help us better understand our place in the galaxy.

The briefing participants are:

-- Paul Hertz, astrophysics director, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Roger Hunter, Kepler project manager, Ames
-- William Borucki, Kepler science principal investigator, Ames
-- Thomas Barclay, Kepler scientist, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, Calif.
-- Lisa Kaltenegger, research group leader, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, and research associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.

News media representatives may attend in-person or by teleconference. To register or obtain dial-in information, contact Michele Johnson at 650-604-4789 or michele.johnson@nasa.gov by noon EDT Thursday, April 18.

To reach Ames, take U.S. Highway 101 to the Moffett Field-NASA Parkway exit and drive east toward the main gate. Media representatives must obtain a badge at the Visitor Badge Office, located at the main gate.

News media representatives and the public may submit questions via Twitter to #AskNASA.

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

The event also will be streamed live on Ustream at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-arc

For more information about the Kepler mission and to view the digital press kit, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/kepler

 

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