Public Appearance - ERNC March 21, 2008
Posted on March 19th, 2008 by blue collar scientistIn a few days, I’ll be at the Eagle River Nature Center to talk about exoplanets - planets orbiting stars other than our sun. The talk is at 7:00 PM on March 21.
I’ll be covering some pretty interesting topics:
- how they are detectable - this will involve my semi-famous “swinging of the heavy ball” demonstration
- why we’ve found a lot of big, short-period planets, and fewer earth-sized, long period ones
- how we find them - what kind of telescopes and instruments are used
- who is finding them - including some amateur astronomers who have made these discoveries
- how many there are
- what we’re likely to find in the future
Come on out and join us!
March 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am
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