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    Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) was a proposed project by NASA to construct a system of space telescopes for detecting extrasolar terrestrial planets...
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  • Planet finder may refer to: Terrestrial Planet Finder, a NASA project for a telescope system to detect extrasolar terrestrial planets Automated Planet...
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    Potential terrestrial exoplanets List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates List of potentially habitable exoplanets For a list of planets as used...
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    detection of terrestrial planets, have backed the launch of a Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) mission. TPF would detect light reflected by planets orbiting...
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    coronagraph has served as the baseline design for the canceled Terrestrial Planet Finder coronagraph. Band-limited masks will also be available on the...
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    habitats. As a result, they may forgo living on planets. This may result in the destruction of terrestrial planets in these systems for use as building materials...
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    spacecraft operating since 2007 Kepler, operational until 2018 Terrestrial Planet Finder, cancelled Space Interferometry Mission, construction halted in...
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    (2013-2017) Origins Program Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) Pluto Kuiper Express (PLUTOKE) – replaced by New Horizons...
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    times that of Earth. Based on its mass and radius, it is likely a terrestrial planet, though its proximity to its star means it may likely be tidally locked...
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    Tau Ceti (category Planetary systems with four confirmed planets)
    (now cancelled) Terrestrial Planet Finder telescope system, commenting that "these are places I'd want to live if God were to put our planet around another...
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  • In space: SIM PlanetQuest. SIM Lite cancelled in 2010. The Terrestrial Planet Finder observatories. De facto cancelled. NASA's Planet-Finding Roadmap...
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  • Extreme Magnetism - 2012 International X-ray Observatory - 2011 Terrestrial Planet Finder - 2011 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna - 2011 Space Interferometry...
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  • interferometry to search for planets around other stars. This technique was considered for use by both the Terrestrial Planet Finder (a canceled NASA mission)...
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  • Technology: Darwin". ESA. Retrieved 28 February 2008. "Planet Quest: Missions – Terrestrial Planet Finder". NASA. Archived from the original on 18 February...
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    metal-rich" star, is one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, ranked 63rd on the list. The red dwarf 55 Cancri B, a...
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    Iota Horologii (category Planetary systems with one confirmed planet)
    was ranked 69th in the list of candidates for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder mission. In 2000, a dust disc was announced around the star, but...
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    the Hubble Space Telescope. The ESA Eddington mission The NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder mission (may be placed in an Earth-trailing orbit instead) L3...
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    Earth-sized exoplanets have been considered, most notably NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and ESA's Darwin programs, both of which have been cancelled...
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  • that conditions on the planet might be conducive to supporting life. The interferometric version of NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder mission is similar in...
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  • (2004-06-22). "Grasping for Light of Distant Worlds". New York Times. "Terrestrial Planet Finder Science and Technology Definition Team". March 2005. Archived...
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  • Mission PEGASE Darwin EChO Eddington Space Interferometry Mission Terrestrial Planet Finder "Mt. Hamilton Telescopes: Carnegie Double Astrograph". www.ucolick...
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  • Observatory - completed Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) - cancelled Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) - cancelled James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) * Single Aperture...
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    Epsilon Eridani (category Planetary systems with one confirmed planet)
    an Earth-like planet to form. Although this system was not chosen as a primary candidate for the now-canceled Terrestrial Planet Finder, it was a target...
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    invented the band-limited coronagraph, a design for the proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) telescope, also to be used on the James Webb Space Telescope...
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    Scorpii, and 51 Pegasi). The second are her top candidates for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (Epsilon Indi, Epsilon Eridani, 40 Eridani, Alpha Centauri B,...
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    Ocean world (redirect from Ocean Planet)
    2013). "Finder of New Worlds". The New York Times. Retrieved May 13, 2014. Overbye, Dennis (January 6, 2015). "As Ranks of Goldilocks Planets Grow, Astronomers...
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    Mission (SIM) PlanetQuest's Discovery Space and Potential Synergy with Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF): I. Detection of Terrestrial Planets in the Habitable...
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  • Planetquest. Was expected launch in 2015, but was canceled. The Terrestrial Planet Finder. First phase was projected to launch 2014, but was canceled. The...
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    Terrestrial planet Finder Coronograph mission. Hammel's main areas of interest are ground and space-based astronomical observations of outer planets'...
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    Upsilon Andromedae (category Planetary systems with three confirmed planets)
    21st in the list of top 100 target stars for NASA's cancelled Terrestrial Planet Finder mission. The star rotates at an inclination of 58+9 −7 degrees...
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