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Encyclopedia > Corot (astronomy)

Corot is a space mission of the French Space Agency ( The Centre National dÉtudes Spatiales is the French government space agency (administratively, a public establishment of industrial and commercial character). Its headquarters are located in central Paris. ...CNES) and the This article is about the European Space Agency. ...European Space Agency, with a launch planned in 2006. COROT stands for COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits.


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  • COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits _ Asteroseismology and Search for Exoplanets (COROT) (http://www.lam.oamp.fr/projets/corot/)

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COROT and the new chapter of planetary searches (829 words)
COROT is expected to greatly enlarge the number of known exoplanets during its two-year mission and provide the first detection of rocky planets, perhaps just a few times the mass of the Earth.
COROT is designed to detect such transits of extrasolar planets across the faces of their parent stars.
COROT will be the first extrasolar planet search mission capable of seeing the smaller, rocky worlds; although they will have to be in close orbits around their stars.
COROT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (419 words)
COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) is a space mission approved and led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency and other international partners.
COROT consists of a 27 cm in diameter afocal telescope with an array of spectroscopic detectors.
COROT will be sensitive enough to detect rocky planets, though only those several times larger than Earth; it is also expected to discover new gas giants, which comprise almost all of the known extrasolar planets.
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