One benefit to me about the Kepler mission, is that we won't always have to wonder if there is any other life on any other planet? I think that is something that we have at least wondered once if there is life on other planets. SO I think with this mission we will finally have proof of if there is life on other planets.
NASA has launched the Kepler mission to search for new planets.
by observing the slight dip in brightness of the central star as the planet transits
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Johannes Kepler.
Heinrich Kepler was the father of famous German astronomer Johannes Kepler
The Kepler Space Mission was named after Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was an astronomy. The Kepler Space Mission is a mission to search for a habitable earth like orbiting star.
a nasa mission to find earth like planets
There are lots of planets in the Kepler series. To answer your question, we need to know to which number Kepler you are asking about.
Kepler - band - ended in 2006.
Ceres and Eris are not planets; they are classified as dwarf planets. Eris was discovered in our solar system recently and not by the Kepler mission. Ceres is not "new" either; it was discovered the first day of the 19th. Century. I didn't check the specific "Kepler-" codes, but that looks like planets discovered by the Kepler mission to be orbiting around other stars.
One benefit to me about the Kepler mission, is that we won't always have to wonder if there is any other life on any other planet? I think that is something that we have at least wondered once if there is life on other planets. SO I think with this mission we will finally have proof of if there is life on other planets.
To see if there are more earth sizedplanets in the Milky Way galaxy.
The Kepler mission started in March 2009, so it is unlikely that is has found anything so far. 4/5/2009
NASA has launched the Kepler mission to search for new planets.
The Kepler mission is specifically designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets. Results from the mission will allow us to place our solar system within the continuum of planetary systems in the Galaxy.
Johannes Kepler
Mission of Burma ended in 1983.