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The Space Inteferometry Mission has selected 10 key projects and five other proposals for studying planetary systems, stars, the Galaxy, and external galaxies.

The Search for Young Planetary Systems and the Evolution of Young Stars
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  • Full proposal
  • Discovery of Planetary Systems with SIM
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  • Full proposal
  • Extrasolar Planets Interferometric Survey (EPIcS)
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  • Full proposal
  • A MASSIF Effort to Determine the Mass-Luminosity
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  • Full proposal
  • Anchoring the Population II Distance Scale: Accurate Ages for Globular Clusters
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  • Taking the Measure of the Milky Way
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  • Stellar, Remnant, Planetary and Dark-Object Masses from Astrometric Mircolensing
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  • Binary Black Holes, Accretion Disks and Relativistic Jets: Photocenters of Nearby AGN and Quasars
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  • Dynamical Observations of Galaxies
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  • Full proposal
  • Synthesis Imaging at Optical Wavelength with SIM
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  • Full proposal
  • Exceptional Star Origins, Companions, Masses and Planets
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  • Masses and Luminosities of X-ray Binaries
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  • A New Approach to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry with SIM Allowing Early Mission Narrow Angle Measurements of Compelling Astronomical Targets
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  • Open and Globular Cluster Distances for Extragalactic, Galactic and Stellar Astrophysics
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