Nach nun 2 nicht ganz so ernst gemeinten Post´s, erreicht mich diese Nacht diese Mail :
Kepler Gushing Planets: Over a Dozen Make the Cut
By Nick Gautier
Kepler is operating normally in its 10th quarter of data collection. Quarter 10 will end near the end of September, and the Kepler spacecraft will roll into its winter attitude. The Kepler team is accelerating data releases to enhance community participation in Kepler science. Quarter 3 data will be released on 23 September with further accelerated releases beginning early next year. Details of the new release schedule will be made public at the Kepler Science Conference in December.
The Kepler pipeline data processor has begun use a multi-quarter planets search that can identify planet candidates with period longer than 45 days. The September data release will benefit from this new planet search capability and will include several hundred more identified planet candidates, some with periods more than 200 days. More Earth-size candidates and more candidates in habitable zones are being found. As of 15 September the Kepler team has confirmed and published six new planets since February, with more than 10 additional planets being prepared for publication. Exciting results on the properties of Kepler target stars are continuing to come from asteroseismic analysis of the Kepler data.
Round two of Kepler Participating Scientists have been selected and 7 new PSPs have joined the Kepler team along with 5 continuing PSPs. The First Kepler Science Conference will be held on 5-9 December 2011 at NASA Ames Research Center.
Also werden wir in der ersten Dezemberwoche schon die "Weihnachtsbescherung" für dieses Jahr bekommen.
Na dann, Frohes Fest euch allen