Kepler (disambiguation)
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Kepler most often refers to Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, or things named after him, see list of things named after Johannes Kepler.
Kepler may also refer to:
People
- Kepler (name), including lists of people with the surname or given name
Mathematics
- Kepler conjecture, about the maximal density of sphere packings
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion, a set of calculations for the orbits of planets
- The Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra, a set of geometrical constructions
Astronomical objects
- Kepler-10, a Sun-like star with at least two planets
- Kepler-10c, the largest and most massive rocky planet discovered as of June 2014
- Kepler-11, a Sun-like star with at least half a dozen exoplanets
- Kepler-22, Sun-like star
- Kepler-22b, first confirmed transiting extrasolar planet to orbit in the habitable zone
- Kepler-37, a yellow dwarf
- Kepler-186, a dwarf star hosting five planets
- Kepler-186f, the first planet with a radius similar to Earth's to be discovered in the habitable zone of another star
- Kepler (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
- Kepler (Martian crater), a crater on Mars
- Kepler's Supernova, supernova 1604, which he observed and described
- 1134 Kepler, an asteroid
- All the exoplanets discovered using the Kepler spacecraft, having a name of the form "Kepler-..." (e.g. Kepler-186f)
- Kepler object of interest
Spacecraft
- Johannes Kepler ATV, the second European Automatic Transfer Vehicle, launched on 16 February 2011
- Kepler (spacecraft), a NASA planet-hunting telescope launched in March 2009
Places
- Kepler, Kentucky, a community in the United States
- The Kepler Track, a hiking trail in New Zealand
Products and institutions
- Kepler (institution), the education technology program based in Kigali, Rwanda
- Kepler College, Seattle, Washington
- Kepler (microarchitecture), the codename for Nvidia's GeForce 600 and 700 Series GPUs
- Kepler scientific workflow system, a software system for designing, executing, and sharing scientific workflows
- Kepler (software), a web application framework
- Kepler, a nickname for version 4.3 of Eclipse software development environment
Music and literature
- Kepler (novel), a 1981 novel by John Banville
- Kepler (opera), a 2009 opera by Philip Glass
- Kepler (band), a defunct Canadian indie rock band
- Kepler (album), a 2014 album by Stefanie Sun
See also
- Keppler
- Category:Kepler Objects of Interest
- All pages with titles containing kepler
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