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Originally Posted by Baddad

Hi Wade,

Thanks for sharing. Interesting how fast the advances are being made.



This hopes to find Earth-size planets by looking for the tiny dip in light coming from a star as an object crosses its face as viewed from Earth.

Star eclipse? Is that what we may call it?

Cheers Marty

It's called a transit, where the planet passes between us and the star.

Same for when Mercury and Venus pass across the face of the Sun.