On Feb. 29, 2012, a Kepler project team contingent briefed a senior review panel and NASA Headquarters members on a proposal for extending the Kepler baseline mission. On March 7, the Kepler mission team received the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award for Space.
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Since science operations began in May 2009, the Kepler team has released two catalogs of transiting planet candidates.
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Kepler has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Space Foundation’s John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration.
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Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems.
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Kepler-47 is the first double-star system discovered containing multiple planets, one of which is orbiting in the so-called “habitable zone.”
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On July 14, 2012, the Kepler spacecraft experienced a disruption in science data collection due to a pointing error.
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Since the last update the team has had two science data downlinks.
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Astronomers have discovered a pair of neighboring planets with dissimilar densities orbiting very close to each other.
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The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon.
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It’s the final opportunity of the century to witness the rare astronomical reunion of the sun, Venus and Earth.
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