On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 11:11:27 AM UTC-4, Steve Willner wrote:


The advantage of the K2 observations is that observing the same event
from Earth and from K2 gives the parallax of the lens. Kepler is
something like an AU from Earth, and the event will be seen at
different times from the different locations.


The K2 Campaign 9 will, apparently, resolve 2 important issues.

1. Whether "free-floating planets" exist in the region observed.

2. If FFPs do exist, whether they are planets, or as Monty Python would
say, something completely different.

Here is a link to the new preprint with the details:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01059

Results will be interesting one way or the other or none of the above.

RLO http://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw