[cripplecreek]

I hope so as well. With a little luck it will inspire us to try harder.

I don’t know if Kepler will look at Alpha Centauri but I’ve read some scientists theorize that its a prime candidate for small rocky planets.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I think that Alpha Centuri, Tau Cei, and Zeta Reticuli are prime candidates.

[newguy357]

I don’t know if Kepler will look at Alpha Centauri but I’ve read some scientists theorize that its a prime candidate for small rocky planets.

Conventional wisdom as of ~2003 was that systems would tend to form either binary+ star systems or single star with planets. Since alpha centauri is a multi-star system, it didn't seem a likely place for planets to be in stable (or at least livable) orbit. Of course, that could all be wrong, but that is what the astrophysicists taught me during undergrad, and it seems to make sense from an orbital dynamics perspective.