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Future Missions to Search for Earth-like Planets
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
30 November 2000
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Eddington
mission
 The
Eddington mission was proposed to the European Space Agency (ESA) in early 2000.
It would search for and study potentially habitable planets around other stars
using a 1.2-meter (47-inch) optical telescope.
Eddington would carry an
optical photometer mounted on a three-axis stabilized platform, sitting far
from Earth.
The mission would also study
the makeup and evolution of stars.
In October, the ESA's Science
Program Committee approved Eddington as part of a larger set of initiatives
to be implemented between 2008 and 2013. A workshop to discuss the mission will
be held June 11-15, 2001, in Spain.
Future
Missions to Search for Earth-like Planets
COROT
| Eddington
| Kepler
| Darwin
| Terrestrial
Planet Finder
| SIM
Related
News
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for Another Earth Quietly Underway
Discovery
of Early Land Life Points to Stellar Possibilities
Related
Links
Eddington
Telescope Home Page
List
of other planet-search missions
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