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Old 02-12-2011, 12:26 PM
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Keck Observatory - online lecture - Exoplanets

In case you are zipping over to Hawaii next week!

Otherwise, try the online site.

W. M. Keck Observatory Presents

Oodles of Exoplanets: The Search for other Habitable Worlds
Dr. Greg Laughlin

University of California, Santa Cruz
Greg Laughlin, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, will take us on a guided tour of the bizarre menagerie of planets that have been discovered outside our solar system. Astronomers are opening a new chapter in human history in which we will know, for the first time, whether Earth-like planets exist around other stars. Laughlin's talk also covers the work that he and his colleagues are doing to find potentially habitable planets orbiting the Sun’s nearest stellar neighbors.

This event also will be webcast live via the Keck Observatory website.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
7:00 PM
at the Kahilu Theatre

Free and Open to the Public
Doors Open at 6:30 PM

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