Comments on Automated Planet Finder Telescope Starts The Hunt
'I was near enough it now to set my automatic astronomical instruments to searching it for a habitable planet.'- Edmond Hamilton, 1936. (Read
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"The European Union plans on launching the space-based Cheops (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) to search for habitable planets.
(Cheops (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite))
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(Bill Christensen 4/3/2014 10:35:05 AM) |
"I should also point out that EE 'Doc Smith had the other option nailed down in his 1934 book Skylark of Valeron - the Manual Search for Habitable Planets.
Also, 'Doc Smith coined the term 'planetiferous suns' to describe extrasolar planetary systems."
(Bill Christensen 4/3/2014 10:37:22 AM) |
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