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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. I guess I need to call My Son the Astronomer to get more on this.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2020, 08:24 PM

Jun 2020

He's doing exoplanet research for his PhD, and is working with Radial Velocity. Not sure if he's looked at data from the HAARPS instrument in Chile, but he'd know about it.

Apparently, astronomers from Earth have been able to look at our sun and find Jupiter using radial velocity. There's apparently a joke among the astronomers that they are hoping someday to find Venus that way.

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Newfound 'super-Earth' exoplanets bear clues about atmospheres of alien worlds [View all] Judi Lynn Jun 2020 OP

I guess I need to call My Son the Astronomer to get more on this. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #1

Very interesting. Nt BootinUp Jun 2020 #2