Re: MOST (was Re: Zodiacal light linked to ancient Martian oceans)

From: Abdul Ahad (aa_spaceagent_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: 7 Jun 2004 04:37:19 -0700

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote in message news:<Hyx8zC.GGn@spsystems.net>...
> In article <3416b228.0406020948.74722f07@posting.google.com>,
> Abdul Ahad <aa_spaceagent@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >On a slight change of topic (party pooper!)...
> >How is the MOST mission performing as of late, and are we due any
> >science releases in the near future?
>
> There is considerable
> interest in planet detection (by seeing brightness changes of the total
> star+planet system as the planet goes through phases), but the first good
> target star for that hasn't entered the continuous-viewing zone yet.
>
This is the area that I'm most keen to see the first results from.
Observing minute light variations due to phase changes of the orbiting
planet as well as a drop in the total light due to silhouetting
transits would be nothing short of revolutionary over current methods
of exoplanet detection. Do you happen to know the particular target
star(s) first on the list and when the first continuous viewing
schedules will commence?

Many thanks for the update, I shall keenly await some hopefully good
results soon...

Meanwhile, we are all no doubt fired up to see the light variations of
our own star tomorrow as one of "our" planets (i.e. Venus) makes its
epic transitory passage across its disk - the first since 1882!

Abdul Ahad
http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagent/

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    ... > star+planet system as the planet goes through phases), ... Observing minute light variations due to phase changes of the orbiting ... starfirst on the list and when the first continuous viewing ... epic transitory passage across its disk - the first since 1882! ...
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