RASC Hamilton FW: Up-Coming Public Lecture - January 21, 2014

[David Galbraith]

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> From: tstewar at mcmaster.ca 
> To: ; 
> Subject: Up-Coming Public Lecture - January 21, 2014 
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:15:34 -0500 
> 
> Professor Jonathan Fortney 
> 
> The Kepler Mission: Finding Exotic Solar Systems on the Road to 
> Earth-Like Planets 
> 
> Humans have long wondered what other planetary systems are like, and if 
> potentially Earth-like planets exist around other stars. NASA's Kepler 
> Mission is a space telescope that was designed to answer these 
> questions. From four years of Kepler data we can now confidently say 
> that the average planetary system looks nothing like our own. Nature 
> often makes compact planetary systems where several planets orbit 
> closer in than Mercury's distance, where our planetary system is 
> entirely empty. Within the startling diversity in planetary systems, 
> Kepler data can be combed to understand how common Earth-size planets 
> really are. I will discuss a variety of recent estimates that all point 
> to tens of billions of Earth-sized planets in our Milky Way, and 
> discuss the fraction of these that may be temperate enough to 
> potentially support life. 
> 
> TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 
> 8:00 P.M. 
> McMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE (MUMC) 1A1 
> 
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