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Shortlist of Possible ET Addresses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the he-phoned-home-just-trace-the-call dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo News is reporting that Astronomer Margaret Turnbull of the Carnegie Institution has released a 'top 10' list of potential inhabitable star systems. NASA is planning on using this top 10 list as the targets for their Terrestrial Planet Finder a 'system of two orbiting observatories scheduled for launch by 2020.'"

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  1. Terrestrial Planet Finder has been cancelled... by thue · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Terrestrial Planet Finder has been cancelled:
    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1092
    So this list seems redundant. To bad, as it was NASA's most exciting project IMO.

    But there is still ESA's Darwin, an essentially identical project, which is still scheduled for a 2015 launch as far as I am aware.