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At last, at long last, a day to myself where I can relax and be myself (that's a euphemism folks) and maybe get some work done. Beautiful springtime winds last night, blowing in the dark and trees swaying.
2006-09-20
(What do you mean I could just edit the previous entry? I'm sure I would have heard of such a feature)
While I was in Borders the other day I picked up a copy of Astronomy magazine, not available in most places yet (Borders got it in through air freight, or so says the sticker, which would explain why it was so expensive), which may be the mag my lecturer recommended we check out. It is a special feature on extrasolar planets with a fold-out poster and everything Interesting contrast in progress and expectations from some of the older papers I have been looking at - three years ago we knew of only half as many planets and none were so small as the ones with all the buzz in this issue. Future missions had not been pushed back so far and some that will not go up for years were expected to have launched by now, or in the near future.
According to this magazine there has been at least one planet discovered so far from lensing (though I am still not entirely clear on circumstances for detection [for shame!]) and possibly one directly detected orbiting a brown dwarf (hm, sounds a little like Hephzibah).
But now, to the pointmobile!
While I was in Borders the other day I picked up a copy of Astronomy magazine, not available in most places yet (Borders got it in through air freight, or so says the sticker, which would explain why it was so expensive), which may be the mag my lecturer recommended we check out. It is a special feature on extrasolar planets with a fold-out poster and everything Interesting contrast in progress and expectations from some of the older papers I have been looking at - three years ago we knew of only half as many planets and none were so small as the ones with all the buzz in this issue. Future missions had not been pushed back so far and some that will not go up for years were expected to have launched by now, or in the near future.
According to this magazine there has been at least one planet discovered so far from lensing (though I am still not entirely clear on circumstances for detection [for shame!]) and possibly one directly detected orbiting a brown dwarf (hm, sounds a little like Hephzibah).
But now, to the pointmobile!
