Kepler (disambiguation)

Kepler most often refers to Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution.

Kepler may also refer to:

Places

• Kepler, Kentucky, a community in the United States
• The Kepler Track, a hiking trail in New Zealand

Astronomical objects

• 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 (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
• Kepler (Martian crater), a crater on Mars
• Kepler's Star, supernova 1604, which he observed and described
• 1134 Kepler, an asteroid

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

Arts and music

• Kepler (novel), a 1981 novel by John Banville
• Kepler (opera), a 2009 opera by Philip Glass
• Kepler (band), a defunct Canadian indie rock band

Other uses

• Kepler (name), including lists of people with the surname or given name
• Kepler, the codename for Nvidia's GeForce 600 Series GPUs
• Kepler conjecture, about the maximal density of sphere packings
• Kepler scientific workflow system, a software system for designing, executing, and sharing scientific workflows
• Kepler (software), a web application framework

See also

• Kepler's laws of planetary motion, a set of calculations for the orbits of planets
• The Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra, a set of geometrical constructions
• Keppler
• All pages with titles containing "kepler"