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March Newsletters and Research

March 2019 Research Papers A limited habitable zone for complex life https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04720 Can Planets Exist in the Habitable Zone of 55~Cancri? https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09613 The Planet Nine Hypothesis https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10103 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/does-planet-9-exist Detectable molecular features above hydrocarbon haze https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10151 Catalog of New K2 Exoplanet Candidates from Citizen Scientists https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00474 The Case for a Deep Search for Earth's Trojan Asteroids https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01922 Enceladus's crust as a non-uniform thin shell II tidal dissipation https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02520 Enlarging habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01995 Transit Ly signatures of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02303 A high binary fraction for the most massive close-in giant planets and brown dwarf desert members https://

RASNZ_20_03_2019

Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand eNewsletter: No. 219, 20 March 2019 Affiliated Societies are welcome to reproduce any item in this email newsletter or on the RASNZ website http://www.rasnz.org.nz/ in their own newsletters provided an acknowledgement of the source is also included. Contents  1. 2019 RASNZ Conference - New Plymouth  2. Call for Papers for 2019 RASNZ Conference  3. RASNZ Administrative Deadlines  4. The RASNZ Beatrice Hill-Tinsley Lecture Series  5. Space Weather Section Director Sought  6. Waharau Dark Sky Weekend 2019

Mercury is the closest planet to all seven other planets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDgbVIqGADQ

Forty-nine people dead after shootings at mosques in central Christchurch

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/384790/live-forty-nine-people-dead-after-shootings-at-mosques-in-central-christchurch

Europas Ocean

A magnetically driven equatorial jet in Europa's ocean https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04624

Interesting look at Planets

http://nccr-planets.ch/blog/2019/03/13/current-highlights-of-planets-research/

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Nice end to the mission https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7348

Barnards Star

Press release from the ESO https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1837/ A super-Earth planet candidate orbiting at the snow-line of Barnard's star https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05955 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1837/eso1837a.pdf Paul @ Centauri Dreams https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/11/14/a-super-earth-orbiting-barnards-star/ Andrew LePage - Physicist @ Drew https://www.drewexmachina.com/2018/11/16/our-new-neighbor-orbiting-barnards-star-details-historical-background/