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Measuring Exoplanets from Space

Presenter: 
Harrington, Joseph
When: 
Wednesday, 6 May 2009 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Taste
Where: 

Address:
717 W. Smith Street

City:
Orlando
,
Province:
Florida
Postal Code:
32804

Country:
United States

Prior to 1993, we knew it would be a long time before anyone detected a planet orbiting another star. Then suddenly it happened, and it was bizarre! Not one, but several worlds doing the impossible: Orbiting pulsars—strange piles of neutrons leftover from powerful supernova explosions that no planet was thought capable of surviving. Shortly thereafter, a normal planet was found to orbit a normal star, in an orbit of just 4 days! The surprises do not end there.

Dr. Joseph Harrington, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCF, one of the first to measure exoplanets by their own light, will present a number of news-making discoveries by his team and others that have set the theory community abuzz.

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