Talk:Terrestrial Planet Finder
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[edit] The Near-sighted Vision for Space Exploration
My honest opinion: This link goes to the section in my user's page. I have written a long argument that I am still in the process of editting. It was mainly a 'stream of consciousness.' People who wish to submit their thoughts can do so in the discussion area of my user page. Submit your thoughts if you are as outraged as I at the fact that NASA is putting science on the backburner.--Marsbound2024 03:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- I completely agree, and will say so here, as well. This is so shameful. --James S. 07:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- Let's put it this way, if I were worth $1.61 billion, I would give my money to NASA and live as a poor man, just for this mission. This is the first time in my life I feel like my country has failed me. --John Ballentine 05:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Factual accuracy of table
The table lists the distance of Iota Persei as being 3LY, which is incorrect (correct distance is 34LY). As the table is imported from an external site, there is no obvious way to fix the error here. Someone with greater knowledge of how Wikipedia works might like to do something about it.
- The actual template is here: {{100TPF}}
- I checked on the supposedly 14th-ranked Gamma Pavonis. This star is the same as Hipparcos 105858, which has rank 124, according to the reference provided. — RJH 16:33, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- I'd just like to add that I found this article from the article on 55 Cancri. In the 55 Cancri article they make the claim that the star is 63rd on the TPF top 100 list, whereas in the table displayed here 63rd is said to be GJ 75.
[edit] NASA claims
In NASA's FY2007 budget report, they claimed that the TPF missions would be deferred until the budget cut is over. As in, when they receive the funding, they will continue the project.
[edit] citation needed tag
I'm too lazy to find out how the reference templating works now, but the quote "The Terrestrial Planet Finding project (TPF) has been deferred indefinitely" is to be found at on the NASA site at http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/142458main_FY07_budget_full.pdf at the bottom of page 80. Algebraist 19:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
