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the search for “exoplanets”, the “gemelo planet” Earth. The ESA has chosen the third mission of class M (medium) of its program Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: will PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), a satellite equipped with 34 small telescopes dedicated to the search for extrasolar planets around bright stars. This was communicated by the Italian Space Agency on its website.
“PLATO – says ASI – give a prominent role to science and technology made in Italy, particularly in the fields of optics and electronic systems. The Italian contribution has been funded by the Italian Space will also provide that a segment of the data center, edited ASI Science Data Center, with the participation of Italian researchers in both the PLATO Payload Consortium is in the PLATO Science Consortium which will have the responsibility for assessing performance of the mission and will take care of the preparation of the scientific program. The manager is Italian Giampaolo Piotto, Department of Astronomy, University of Padua. “
“The peculiarity of PLATO compared with similar missions that preceded it is that it will find a large number of planets around bright stars, for which it is possible to make further observations from the ground to determine the mass of the planet and then derive the density – said Elizabeth Tommasi, head of mission in Plato ASI – the Italian science team is responsible for the characterization of the regions to be observed and the preparation of the list of candidate stars to host planetary systems, also with the support of ‘ASI Science Data Center. “
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