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Cheops

Cheops

1 9.9
A space satellite that measures starlight to find planet sizes
  • proper noun
  • Specialized
: CHEOPS
  • Cheops is designed to precisely measure the sizes of planets orbiting other stars, contributing to exoplanet research.

Examples

  • Von Daniken claims they had to have been built with help from "ancient astronauts" because of the "amazing" coincidence that the height of the pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) multiplied by a thousand million approximates the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The European Space Agency's mission, Cheops, aims to enhance our understanding of exoplanet characteristics.

  • In the groundbreaking Cheops mission, astronomers will study the transit of exoplanets across their stars.

Synonyms

Kepler
vsCheops
12 6.6

A NASA space telescope launched in 2009 that searches for planets around other stars

focuses on measuring sizes of known planets rather than searching for new ones

Surface Forms

Cheops main

Etymology

Cheops is the name of an ESA space mission taken from the Pharaoh Cheops, and the mission name also comes from the words Characterising ExOPlanets Satellite, so the satellite studies planets outside our solar system by measuring their size.