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March 2024 News and research papers

  March 2024 News and research papers A few interesting ones to read this month on a range of topics. The updated look and thinking on Mini Neptune/or Ocean Hycean Planets was interesting and something I’m going to have to do more research and study on, My feeling is the temperature of the planet can have a big impact on the outer layers or envelope. I have also looked into battery power systems for emergency’s and also running your telescope so that’s on my list of things to do more research on too. Simulating Alien Civilizations with LLM-based Agents https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.13184 A recently quenched galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14155 Dedicated work searching and lets hope another target can be found. The New Horizons Extended Mission Target https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04927 This is the first I have read on this subject, interesting Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles https://www.nature.com/art

December 2023 News and research items

Hi everyone   It’s looking like a humid warm Christmas here in New Zealand, a few news items and research papers here to read up on.   Humid and wet https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/505479/christmas-eve-forecast-scattered-thunderstorms-and-rain-across-nz   https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/weekend-newsfeed-muggy-conditions-coming-in-the-north     Merry Christmas everyone and I’ve attached some Christmas photos from last night too   Cheers   Research papers   A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06692-3     Binary planet formation through tides https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/2/3837/7379620       A Postquantum Theory of Classical Gravity https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041040     Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity https://www.nature.com/art

October 2023 News research papers and Starcharts.

  October 2023 News research papers and Starcharts.   It’ been a busy interesting month, lots of interesting subjects and links and papers to follow up on and read. I need to read about the aero capture mission to the ice giants of the solar system. There is a good look at the number of Exoplanets and also super earths Ocean hycean Planets also.           Research papers     An Assay on The Hobbesian Trap and Axioms of First Contact https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964623000486       Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an Alternative to the Planet Nine Hypothesis https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acef1e     The Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth's Large Mounds https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acf317     A Tale of 3 Dwarf Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15230       No Evidence for More Earth-sized Planets in the Habitable Zone of Kepler's M versus FGK

September 2023 Research papers

  Hi Folks, its been a busy month so only a few papers from September 2023 Optimized Trajectories to the Nearest Stars Using Lightweight High-velocity Photon Sails https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa813f Swarming Proxima Centauri: Optical Communication Over Interstellar Distances. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07061 Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14804 A small Universe https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03272 Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14804 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting News items Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/2023/webb-discovers-methane-carbon-dioxide-in-atmosphere-of-k2-18b