Benjamin Dean Lecture - Kepler: Are There Any Good Worlds Out There?

The Kepler Mission began on May 12, 2009, initiating NASA's first search for Earth-like planets. Kepler released light curves for the first 43 days of observations for over 150,000 target stars and announced the identification of over 700 planetary candidates, 3000 eclipsing binaries, and five multiple transiting planet candidate systems. Jenkins will discuss the equipment, mission and how the Science Pipeline will be modified to reveal small Earth-like planets in habitable zones of their stars.

Speaker: Jon Jenkins, Principal Investigator, SETI Institute & Co-investigator, Kepler Discovery Mission

Seating is limited. Reserve a space online or over the phone at 800-794-7576.