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  1. No SMEX-love for TESS on the Nature Blog - http://bit.ly/jFpXJ
  2. another article lamenting TESS non-selection - http://bit.ly/2vZp9j
  3. @Eaterofsun great idea - @elonmusk want to find planets?
  4. Gilster felt NASA "missed an opportunity with TESS. ... From the PR perspective, TESS was a gold-plated winner." http://bit.ly/SuKXM
  5. Just had debrief w/ the Ames TESS team. Mood: positive. Immediate future: windy. Commitment: yes. Future: space. (Food: CA strawberries)
  6. @cabri hardly...one of my favorite quotes: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine...." :)
  7. Thinking about ways to keep the core team together and creative solutions for getting into space... ideas?
  8. Congratulations to IRIS and GEMS for winning the SMEX selections. http://bit.ly/EIwRF Head held high knowing the team and mission is solid
  9. nice blog post by Paul Glister about TESS - http://www.centauri-dreams....
  10. "98% probability that TESS will locate a potentially habitable transiting terrestrial planet" New blog by Co-I Laughlin - http://oklo.org/
  11. Interesting article in the New York Times today about @NASAKepler and TESS: http://bit.ly/MiM1O
  12. Kepler Spacecraft has expendibles to run the mission for 10 years @NASAKepler
  13. Kepler team wants to make sure that all the data we find is available to the public...then Amateurs can use data for follow-up. @NASAKepler
  14. One @NASAKepler Co-I did astroseismology (which needs 2PPM) reduced for one star (taking out noise) - already getting 5PPM! Fantastic!
  15. Dwarf stars (sun-like) are low noise! This is additional data to info found from CoRoT and means TESS targets will find Earths! @NASAKepler
  16. Already without systematic noise and artifact removal, the Photometric Precision is already within 50% of design! Good News @NASAKepler
  17. Kepler has data from 53,000 stars and 10 days. Already found 500-1000 Binary Star systems. @NASAKepler
  18. Bill Borucki - PI for @NASAKepler - is giving a NASA Ames Director's Colloquium today talking about the Kepler mission.
  19. Regarding the selection announcement, it can happen any time! It could be today or next month, nobody knows!
  20. Next week is the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Pasadena, CA. TESS has a talk and NASA a Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday.