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A PLANETARY SYSTEM THAT LOOKS LIKE HOME
June 19, 2006
Guests: Christophe Lovis
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Christophe Lovis of the Geneva Observatory led the team that recently found a three-planet system not far from our own. The third planet is in the so-called "habitable zone." He talks about the...  more »

BY THE LIGHT OF A NEW WORLD
April 11, 2005
Guests: David Charbonneau
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Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau is lead author of a paper describing one of the first ever detections of light from a planet beyond our solar system. Emily Lakdawalla dishes up the Deep Space...  more »

BILLIONS OF EARTHS?
September 6, 2004
Guests: Geoff Marcy
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Professional planet hunter Geoff Marcy of UC Berkeley returns to share astounding news of newly-discovered Extrasolar Planets that are much closer in size to our Earth. Meteors, meteoroids and...  more »

HUNTING FOR EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
May 31, 2004
Guests: Geoff Marcy
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UC Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy and his team have discovered more planets outside our solar system than anyone else. We talk to him as he continues the search from the Keck telescope on Hawaii....  more »

AN ENCORE FOR SIR ARTHUR AND ANOTHER NEW EXTRASOLAR PLANET
July 7, 2003
Guests: Arthur C. Clarke
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We replay our fascinating talk with Arthur C. Clarke for our worldwide radio listeners on KUCI, but everything else is new, including the trivia contest question, and word of yet another planet...  more »

100 EXTRASOLAR PLANET CANDIDATES...AND COUNTING!
February 10, 2003
Guests: Steve Howell
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Solar systems seem to be popping up almost everywhere we look. We'll talk with Steve Howell, who heads the Search for Extrasolar Planets at the Planetary Science Institute.  more »