Keck Telescope to observe Kepler finds
From astronomy.com…
The Kepler mission will monitor the brightness of more than 100,000 stars. Kepler will look for the faint dimming of stars caused as Earth-size planets cross their faces.
For nearly a decade, University of California at Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy and his colleagues have been using the W. M. Keck telescopes to discover giant planets orbiting distant stars. Now, with the successful launch of NASA’s Kepler mission, they will be using Keck I’s 10-meter astronomical eye to discover distant Earths. Kepler will pick out earthlike candidates. Keck will then zero in on them and determine if they are at all similar to our planet.
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