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COROT 9 b, named by astronomical convention for the instrument that discovered it, the COROT (for COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits) satellite, is less massive than Jupiter and orbits a star, called COROT 9, at about the same distance Mercury orbits the sun.
European Tribune European Tribune 2010
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So the surface environment of COROT is really very nice compared to what else is out there
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Developed by the European Space Agency, COROT will search for planets using the transit method; it will be able to detect the slight drop in brightness as a planet moves in front of its parent star.
Archive 2006-10-01 Mac 2006
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COROT, a French satellite scheduled to be launched in 2006, is designed to discover planets photometrically.
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COROT, a French satellite scheduled to be launched in 2006, is designed to discover planets photometrically.
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Like NASA's Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009, the three-year-old COROT tracks the brightness of stars with a photometer, looking for periodic dimming that might be attributable to the passage of a planet across the face of its host star.
European Tribune European Tribune 2010
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(ESA) project scientist for the COROT spacecraft (Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits), a French mission that also looks for planets but which has a 0. 3-metre telescope - smaller than Kepler's.
Scientific American 2010
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Fridlund says there is "no way" the COROT team was planning to use the public Kepler data as it is too busy trying to confirm its own backlog of several hundred candidates.
Scientific American 2010
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Investigating boffins have been probing the far-flung giant planet since April 2008 using the COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) space telescope in orbit above Earth.
The Register Team Register 2010
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Music of the Spheres describes why space is not easy and uses the example of the COROT space mission.
Next Big Future 2010
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