{"id":5608,"date":"2010-10-08T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2012-07-30T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T01:31:42","slug":"alien-planets-presentation-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5608","title":{"rendered":"Alien Planets Presentation 10\/8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Paul Rybski, UWW Dept. of Physics, will talk about “Alien Planets: What we know and don’t know about some planetary systems beyond our own<\/strong>” on Fri., Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. (Upham Hall 140), followed by a public viewing session at the Whitewater Observatory at 9:15 p.m. (weather permitting). This is the first of the fall 2010 Observatory Lecture Series<\/a>, all of which are free and open to all!<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in learning more about exoplanets:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"InfiniteSearch HALCAT (library catalog)<\/a> for “extrasolar planets”<\/strong> to find books such as Infinite worlds: An illustrated voyage to planets beyond our sun<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection QB820 .V595 2005).<\/p>\n

\"AstronomySearch the Library’s article databases<\/a> to find articles such as “How astronomers will find another EARTH<\/a>” (the cover story of Astronomy<\/em>, Oct. 2010, vol.38:no.10, pp.28-33, available in the 1st-floor Current Periodicals area).<\/p>\n

Read the e-print of the Gliese 581g discovery article “The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581<\/a>” (accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal<\/em>). The NASA web site provides an “artist’s conception” of the Gliese 581 system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"NASAnd if you’re wondering about the importance of this: The “search for habitable planets outside our solar system” is one of three science objectives for 2012-2021 set by the National Academy of Science’s Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics (You can get a free download of the New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics<\/em><\/a> report for personal use.).<\/p>\n

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Lecture Abstract from Dr. Rybski:<\/p>\n

“On October 4th, 2010, a Lick Observatory<\/a> team of astronomers led by Dr. Steven Vogt<\/a> announced the discovery of the planet Gliese 581g in orbit around the cool red dwarf star<\/a> Gliese 581. This planet’s mass is close to Earth’s, and it orbits Gliese 581 in the “Goldilock’s Zone<\/a>“, a distance from the star within which water can exist as a solid, liquid and vapor somewhere on a planet. Other than the presence of the correct gases in its atmosphere, having water in all three of its phases on Gliese 581g is a precondition for life as we know it existing on this planet. In addition to reviewing the two observational methods by which exoplanets<\/a> are found around other stars and surveying how many exoplanets have been found to date, I will present what we know about at present about the living conditions on Gliese 581c.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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