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SUMMARY:The NASA Kepler Mission -- Roger Hunter
DESCRIPTION:Departmental Colloquium. 
NASA’s Kepler Mission spacecraft was launched in March 2009.  Its chief science objective is to answer some ancient questions:  How rare is the Earth?  What fraction of stars in our galaxy harbor potentially habitable planets?  The answers to these questions may offer a profound understanding on whether life is widespread in the galaxy or whether we are possibly alone.  I will present an overview of the Kepler Mission, its science objectives, the results discovered so far, and the expectations for the mission.

LOCATION:Physics Auditorium 202
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