Talk:New Worlds Imager
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[edit] Opening up Summary
Can somebody open up the summary of Possible Discoveries and see how low the lowest possible mass and how far the farthest possible orbital distance is for planets by New Worlds Imager and maybe others like collect more precise data and collect new data for the discovered planets and previous planets like it discovered years before that mission would be launched. Cosmium 22:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- I don't quite understand your question. Since New Worlds Imager can only detect visible light or infrared radiation from the planets, it cannot directly measure their masses, but there has to be some minimum size for planets it can detect (which of course depends on how near the star is from us). Detections on visible light depend on the planet's orbital distance, but IR telescope can detect free-floating planets, provided they're warm enough. But in their case a star shade would be unnecessary.
- What comes to possible discoveries, we cannot speculate (see Wikipedia is not a crystal ball).--JyriL talk 00:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
