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  • Transit of Venus Event

    On June 5, Venus will pass directly between Earth and the Sun. This alignment is fairly rare — this is the last time it will happen until 2117! What we’ll […]

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  • Successful Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Kevin Stevenson

    Congratulations to Kevin Stevenson on the successful defense of his Ph.D. Dissertation.  His dissertation on “DETECTING AND CHARACTERIZING EXOPLANETS: THE GJ 436 AND HD 149026 SYSTEMS” included analyses of over […]

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  • Successful Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Kévin Baillié

    Congratulations to Kévin Baillié on the successful defense of his Ph.D. Dissertation on July 7, 2011. His dissertation on “Fine-Scale Structures in Saturn’s Rings: Waves, Wakes and Ghosts” included an […]

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  • PhD Dissertation Defense: Robert J. Macke, SJ

    The dissertation defense of Robert J. Macke, SJ, takes place in MAP 318 at 10:00 am.  The defense is open to the public and begins with a 45-minute presentation of […]

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  • UCF Winter Workshop 2012, Next-Generation Suborbital Research Conference: Registration Open

    Registration is now open for UCF Planetary Science’s second Winter Workshop, which is also the second meeting of the Next-Generation Suborbital Research Conference.  The meeting will be held in the […]

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  • UCF Professor Daniel Britt Elected to Lead International Planetary Science Society

    The Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, the world’s leading and largest professional organization of planetary scientists, has elected UCF Prof. Daniel Britt to serve as Vice […]

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  • Water Ice and Organics on the Surface of the Asteroid 24 Themis

    On the April 29 issue of the journal Nature, UCF faculty Drs. Humberto Campins and Yanga Fernandez and student Kelsey Hargrove report the first detection of water ice and organic […]

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  • GJ 436b: Where’s the Methane?

    GJ 436b: Where’s the Methane?

    The GJ 436 system is located only 33 light-years away, in the constellation Leo.  Around a relatively small M-dwarf star, orbits the Neptune-sized planet GJ 436b.  This extrasolar planet completes one […]

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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.

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