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tham153 say: probes have discovered quite a few moons, but no planets
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CarolOklaNola say: Technically, yes, that IS possible, but if you are talking about the & exoplanets NASA announced recently, those exoplanets were discovered by using a combination of telescopes on the ground with adaptive optics on the ground AND a satellite in space, NOT A PROBE. The people directing the a probe remotely may FIND a new planet by accident or intentionally. When planet 9 is confirmed visually, Planet 9's existence was predicted mathematically , just like Pluto was predicted before it was discovered in 1930. by Clyde Tombaugh.AND Neptune in 1846.
Kepler IS NOT a probe. It's a satellite in orbit. It's mission is to LOOK for new planets.
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SupaStar say: Sure, just ask your doctor.
He has a probe that can locate Uranus.
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poldi say: Depends on your definition of "probe".
If you mean a spacecraft like New Horizons or Cassini, they would not find new planets because it would take much too long to get to another star system.
If you mean a probe like the Kepler telescope, then yes - Kepler has found over 2300 exoplanets so far (out of 4700 possible candidates).
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Nyx say: If it's designed to do such, certainly.
Such the current Kepler mission
https://kepler.nasa.gov/
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/1560...
https://phys.org/news/2013-06-corot-plan...
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Gary B say: maybe, but not likely.
Probes need to be sent to a plaent that is already found
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quantumclaustrophobe say: Sure. We launched the Kepler probe about 8 years ago; it's found about 3500 new planets.
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Santrupt say: no
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