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PASS THROUGH PAGE - Models and Simulations—Kepler Mission

LEGO orrery and model of Kepler mission concept
to demonstrate the principle of how Kepler will find extrasolar planets by the transit method.

ISAWFinding Exoplanets (A Simulation)
Part of Interactive Science Activities on the Web series, directed by Dr. Richard L. Bowman, at Bridgewater College, VA. This is a web-based version of a portion of the Kepler interactive simulator Hyperstudio program (below) to detect planets. It includes a classroom activity plan based on the web site.

There is also a Lab Exercise by Philip Blanco, of Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA. The Lab Exercise is based on the above online simulation.

 

Paper model of the Kepler spacecraft

 

Extra-solar Planets. STEM Software (Java Applets) at University of Colorado.
A visualization of how astronomers fit model Doppler velocity curves to data representing actual extra-solar planetary systems.

transit pictureInteractive simulation of Kepler mission using HyperStudio for Macintosh. Explore a simulated star field and use virtual instruments to discover new planets.

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Planet Quest—The Search for Another Earth an overview of exoplanet search programs at JPL.

Astro-Venture
An educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment where students in grades 5-8 role-play NASA occupations, as they search for and build a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation.

Celestia—an open source, real time and space simulation. Tour the solar system. As open source - objects can be added. Extrasolar systems could be added. Time element can be speeded up to observe planetary orbits, moons' orbits.

 

 
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