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Information Technology News Google climbs aboard search for ET planets
Information Technology News Google climbs aboard search for ET planets | Google climbs aboard search for ET planets |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 20 March 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 "Decades, or even centuries after the TESS survey is completed, the new
planetary systems it discovers will continue to be studied because they
are both nearby and bright," says George R. Ricker, senior research
scientist at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at
MIT and leader of the project. "In fact, when starships transporting
colonists first depart the solar system, they may well be headed toward
a TESS-discovered planet as their new home."Featured Whitepaper
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Who knows - maybe the name of the first interplanetary colonist transporter will be Starship Google. |
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