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  • Save the date for Winter Workshop 2011!

    Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference to be held in the Pegasus Ballroom on the UCF main campus in Orlando from Monday February 28 – Wednesday March 2, 2011.

    AJ Foster

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  • ANNOUNCEMENT: UCF Winter WORKSHOP 2010: Exoplanets for Planetary Scientists

    University of Central Florida Campus Orlando, Florida, USA 6-8 January 2010 https://planets.ucf.edu/winterworkshop2010 We have changed the name to reduce confusion: It’s not just for students!  This is a research workshop.  The abstract deadline has been extended to 2009-Oct-31.  Special Speakers and Session Leaders include Alan Stern, Eric Gaidos, Renu Malhotra, Adam Showman, Andrew Collier Cameron,…

    AJ Foster

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  • Impact on Jupiter!

    UCF is hosting a web page to index observations and results related to the impact of a comet on Jupiter on the 19th.  See https://planets.ucf.edu/resources/jupiter-impact

    AJ Foster

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  • UCF Co-Hosts Brown-Dwarf and Exoplanet Conference in China During Eclipse

    New Technologies for Probing the Diversity of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets will be held in Shanghai, China, during the longest solar eclipse of this century (July 22). UCF Faculty members Eduardo Martin and Michele Montgomery are organizer and LOC member, respectively. http://www.shao.ac.cn/bdep_meeting/

    AJ Foster

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  • FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: UCF Winter Workshop 2010: Exoplanets for Planetary Scientists

    University of Central Florida Campus Orlando, Florida, USA 6-8 January 2010 https://planets.ucf.edu/winterworkshop2010 This warm winter workshop will bring together experts in exoplanet observation and planetary theory, delivering both the latest research results and school-style talks on applying planetary science to exoplanetary problems.

    AJ Foster

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  • Planetary Science Researcher Tests Methods for Finding Life on ExtraSolar Planets

    UCF Prof. Eduardo Martin was part of a team that used the spectrum of the Earth – reflected from the Moon during a lunar eclipse – to simulate the search for life on extrasolar planets. The study was published today in Nature.

    AJ Foster

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  • UCF Student Visiting the Southwest in Search of Meteorites

    University of Central Florida graduate student Robert Macke has packed up his car for a three-month road trip in search of meteorites. He will visit collections in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

    AJ Foster

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  • 5th Star & Planet Formation Day at UF

    The University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, will host the 5th Star & Planet Formation Day on Friday, January 30, 2009, featuring talks by Sarah Dodson-Robinson (Spitzer Fellow at JPL), Kaitlin Kratter (U Toronto), Ruth Murrary-Clay (ITC Fellow at CfA), and Andrew Youdin (CITA Fellow). There will also be short, informal research talks and discussion…

    AJ Foster

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  • 5th Star & Planet Formation Day at UF

    The University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, will host the 5th Star & Planet Formation Day on Friday, January 30, 2009, featuring talks by Sarah Dodson-Robinson (Spitzer Fellow at JPL), Kaitlin Kratter (U Toronto), Ruth Murrary-Clay (ITC Fellow at CfA), and Andrew Youdin (CITA Fellow). There will also be short, informal research talks and discussion…

    AJ Foster

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