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troutman · 02-02-2012, 01:51 PM

Targeted Search

http://www.seti.org/node/662

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Project Phoenix concentrated efforts on that component of the NASA SETI project known as the Targeted Search. Its strategy was to carefully examine the regions around 1,000 nearby Sun-like stars. The world's largest antennas were used, committing observing time for SETI.

Unlike many previous searches, Phoenix didn't scan the whole sky. Rather, it scrutinized the vicinities of nearby, sun-like stars. Such stars are most likely to host long-lived planets capable of supporting life. We naturally include stars that are known to have planets. Project Phoenix observed about 800 stars. All are within 200 light-years distance

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/f...ond-earth.html

02-02-2012, 01:51 PM	#1401
troutman Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Crowsnest Pass Exp:	Targeted Search http://www.seti.org/node/662 Ex. Project Phoenix concentrated efforts on that component of the NASA SETI project known as the Targeted Search. Its strategy was to carefully examine the regions around 1,000 nearby Sun-like stars. The world's largest antennas were used, committing observing time for SETI. Unlike many previous searches, Phoenix didn't scan the whole sky. Rather, it scrutinized the vicinities of nearby, sun-like stars. Such stars are most likely to host long-lived planets capable of supporting life. We naturally include stars that are known to have planets. Project Phoenix observed about 800 stars. All are within 200 light-years distance http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/f...ond-earth.html Last edited by troutman; 02-02-2012 at 02:11 PM.