Packet 8: Tossup 2

Description acceptable. Technology being developed to improve a technique for this task include coronagraphs and starshades. A mission (0[1]-5[1])planned for (15[1])2026, (15[1])PLATO, will perform this task, which is currently being performed by TESS. (15[2])Michel (15[1])Mayor (15[2])and Didier (15[2])Queloz (15[2])received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully performing (-5[1])this task. (15[2]-5[2])The (*) radial velocity method (10[2]-5[1])is a (10[1])technique (10[1])for this task. (10[3]-5[2])The transit method was used (10[1])to perform (10[1])this task (10[3]-5[1])successfully over (10[1])2000 (10[2])times (10[1])by the Kepler (-5[1])telescope. (10[2])Current initiatives for this task are focused on searching within a "Goldilocks zone." (10[2]-5[1])For 10 (-5[1])points, (10[2])name this task of finding new objects in orbit around other stars. ■END■ (10[7])

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