Thursday, February 17, 2011

New Vistas Feb 17, 2011

New Vistas Feb 17, 2011
Perkins Observatory
Andy Gould - Microlensing Planets and Dark Energy
Venus 1 million BC
2-5 1000 BC
Mercury
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
1543 Earth
1781 Uranus
18xx Neptune

Radial velocity 400 planets
Transiting planets

Future in space
-weather
-seeing
Wide field infrared telescope
Not approved until,dark energy

Kepler a success
Microlensing proved on practice
Next gen will increase 10 fold
Wfirst will transform field

Jay Elkes

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