Stephen Kane
Stephen Kane
Stephen Kane is an associate professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University who specializes in exoplanetary science. His work covers a broad range of exoplanet detection methods, including the microlensing, transit, radial velocity, and imaging techniques. He is a leading expert on the topic of planetary habitability and the habitable zone of planetary systems. He has published more than 180 scientific papers in refereed journals and has discovered/co-discovered several hundred planets orbiting other stars...
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The good thing about this is it shows that planets this size might be quite common in habitable zones.
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The softening in the housing market is probably the leading indicator as to where our economy is headed. Yields at these levels will no doubt affect consumer spending.
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People don't know that there is room for negotiation and that it is Town Meeting who decides. I feel it is like Congress, it is the legislative branch of town government.
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Vulcan, for the Greek god of fire, really didn't fit something at the very edge of the solar system.
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It's interesting that 10 or 15 years ago this was science fiction.
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There's a very subtle effect, a spike, and that's what we're looking for.
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The Greco-Roman names that traditionally are used for naming bodies in our solar system have almost completely been used up on asteroids.
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The end goal of all this is to answer the fundamental question: Are we alone? But how did life form on Earth, and how easy is it for life to form? Those are other questions the discovery of planets can help us answer.