Definitive word on the CoRoT results...
Heard by e-mail from an authoritative source, and independently sourced from spacEurope (see comments in CoRoT update thread) that there will be a press conference and associated press release on the early results from CoRoT on 20th December.
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Status of CoRoT and Kepler missions is reviewed at the "Exoplanets Rising" workshop at the Kavli Institute, we'll see if there are any news.
CoRoT is up first. Magali Deleuil presenting.
Kepler next with Bill Borucki.
COROT launched successfully on a Soyuz
Corot is a very nifty little satellite.
It is a french space agency small satellite, designed to measure convection, rotation and to find planets.
Four new objects announced, three transiting planets and something peculiar from CoRoT a "compact brown dwarf" - or is it...