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THE SCIENCE TEAM AND A FEW OF

THE MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE

KEPLER POSSIBLE

William Borucki1, David Koch1, Gibor Basri2, Natalie Batalha3 , Timothy Brown4, Derek Buzasi23,

Douglas Caldwell5, John Caldwell17, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard6 , William D. Cochran7, Edna

DeVore5, Laurance Doyle5, Edward W. Dunham8, Andrea K. Dupree10, Eric B. Ford13, Jonathan

Fortney25, Thomas N. Gautier III9, John C. Geary10, Ronald Gilliland11, Alan Gould18, Matthew J.

Holman10, Steve B. Howell15, Jon M. Jenkins5, Hans Kjeldsen6, Yoji Kondo30, Jack J. Lissauer1, David

W. Latham10, Geoffrey W. Marcy2, Alan Boss19, Søren Meibom10, David G. Monet12, David Morrison1,

Dimitar Sasselov10, Sara Seager26, Jason H. Steffen27, Jill Tarter5, William F. Welsh28,

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Christopher Allen32, Howard Anderson2, Jason Barnes34, Don Brownlee22, Frederick Bruhweiler33,

Stephen T. Bryson1, Lars Buchhave10, Hema Chandrasekaran5, David Charbonneau10, David Ciardi29,

Bruce D. Clarke5, Jessie Dotson1, Michael Endl7, Debra Fischer16, Michael Haas1, Elliott Horch24, Howard

Isaacson2, John Asher Johnson29, Jie Li5, Toby Owen21, Andrej Prsa35,Elisa V. Quintana5, Jason Rowe1,

Phillip MacQueen7, William Sherry15, Peter Tenenbaum5, Guillermo Torres10 , Joseph D. Twicken5,

Jeffrey Van Cleve5, Ekaterina Verner33, Lucianne Walkowicz2, Haley Wu5 , Jeffrey Kolodziejczak31,