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Kepler Mission Team
By Edna DeVore
SETI Institute
posted: 07:00 am ET
10 January 2002
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Sidebar:Just six days before Johann Kepler's 430th birthday on December 27, NASA Headquarters announced the selection of the mission named in his honor as a part of the Discovery program. Astronomers Bill Borucki and David Koch at NASA Ames Research Center lead the scientific team. With Project Manager Larry Webster, they will work closely with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colorado to construct, launch, and operate the Kepler Mission. In addition, scientists, engineers, and educators from around the USA will work with Borucki and Koch as the Kepler team: NASA Ames Research Center -William Borucki, PI -David Koch, Deputy PI -Larry Webster, Project Manager Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation -Harold Reitsema and engineering team Carnegie Institution of Washington: Alan Boss High Latitude Observatory: Timothy Brown Lowell Observatory: Edward Dunham NASA ARC: Jack Lissauer, David Morrison NASA GSFC: Yoji Kondo Planetary Sciences Institute: Steve Howell SETI Institute: Edna DeVore, Jon Jenkins, Jill Tarter Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: Andrea Dupree, John Geary, David Latham, Dimitar Sasselov Space Telescope Science Institute: Ronald Gilliland UC Berkeley: Gibor Basri, Alan Gould, Geoff Marcy University of Hawaii: Tobias Owen University of Texas at Austin: William Cochran University of Washington: Donald Brownlee York University: John Caldwell For more information, please visit the Kepler web site: http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov
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