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Bode’s Law
Now I’m certainly not alone in thinking, upon seeing the latest configuration of the Gliese 581 system, Whoa, there’s room for a habitable Earth-mass planet in there… Using the terrestrial planet...
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On track
It’s gratifying to see that Gliese 581 e lands right on a trend line that’s held up for over two decades and a factor of two thousand in planetary mass. It’s amazing that within a year, we’ll be in...
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As is usually the case, there’s been little or no shortage of interesting developments in the field of extrasolar planets. The biggest recent news has been the announcement at the Barcelona conference...
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lithium
Diamond prospecting proceeds through the identification of indicator minerals such as specific forms of garnet. The garnets can be traced upstream to the Kimberlite pipes. The Kimberlite pipes contain...
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lithium-induced speculations
Israelian et al’s Nature paper on the planet-stellar lithium correlation (featured in last week’s post) caused quite a stir in the community. The depletion of lithium in the atmosphere of a solar-type...
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that golden age
I’m nostalgic for ’97, when the discovery of a new extrasolar planet was literally front-page news. What’s now cliche was then fully viable poetic sweep. Epicurus and his multitude of worlds. Bruno...
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The latest anomalies
Photographed at UCSC Art Dept. Spring 2012 Open Studios The announcement of new transiting hot-Jupiter type planets, such as WASP 79b or HAT-P-38b, by the ground-based surveys no longer generates...
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