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Originally Posted by Chip
Gaia accomplishes a lot of different tasks in one package. That's really amazing. With regard to detecting "as many as 10,000 planets around other stars..." this seems like a long term project since star wobble over time would have to be the main factor for detection. I wonder if the programming linked to Gaia would also be capable of refining detection to include estimated sizes of planets.
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http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?pr...AIA&page=index
Its billion-pixel camera will be in fact composed of 170 separate cameras, tiled together in a mosaic to register every object that passes through the field of view. Each individual camera or 'charge-coupled device' (CCD) will have a resolution of almost nine million pixels. Gaia will take images for five years.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/09/13.html