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Researchers with UCF Connections Honored with Asteroid Names
An international collection of scientists who study asteroids, comets, and meteors met this week at the (appropriately named) Asteroids Comets Meteors 2017 conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is the most […]
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Dr. Addie Dove Profiled by the Center for Success of Women Faculty
A profile of one of our own professors, Dr. Addie Dove, is included in the Center for Success of Women Faculty’s celebration of Women’s History Month! Give it a read!
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Using asteroids to protect astronauts in deep space
A recent paper published by UCF researchers Leos Pohl and Prof. Dan Britt discussing how asteroid clays could work better than aluminum at protecting astronauts in deep space from radiation […]
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Planetary Sciences Group revamps website
We’ve updated our website into a format that we hope will improve the user experience, ease navigation, and align better with UCF’s colors. Over the next few weeks we will […]
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WASP-12b: The First Carbon-Rich Exoplanet
The transiting exoplanet WASP-12b is located some 870 light-years from Earth. This extremely irradiated planet orbits its Sun-like, G0 parent star in just over 26 hours, resulting in a dayside […]
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Excitement builds for OSIRIS-REx launch
OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s New-Frontiers-class mission to visit a primitive asteroid and return a sample of it to Earth. Read about some of the UCF faculty and students who are involved […]
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Graduate Student wins Best Poster Competition at International Conference
Our graduate student, Jenna Crowell, has won the Best Student Poster Competition in the Planetary Science section at the recent Asia Oceania Geosciences Society annual conference, held in Beijing. Congratulations […]
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Congratulations Dr. Tracy Becker!
Congratulations to our grad student expert on Saturn’s rings who successfully defended her dissertaiton in December. Tracy is now starting a postdoc at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San […]
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Congratulations Dr. Patricio Cubillos and Dr. Jasmina Blecic!
Our two resident grad student exoplanet experts have successfully defended their dissertations and have left us for postdocs. Patricio is now in the planetary department at the University of Graz, […]
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