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Hi everyone Another interesting month, the usual star charts and newsletters are attached. The amazing image of the black hole really stole the news cycle this month and I’m sure you all have seen the image read about the discovery along with the team behind it. In the world of Anthropology and human evolution the discovery of a new and ancient human species on Luzon was a major discovery and the story of our own evolution becomes ever more interesting and unexpected. With the “Hobbits” on Flores the islands of South East Asia are one interesting area and Sulawesi is another island to explore. The research paper on this discovery was huge in size (50MB) probably due to the imbedded images, but can be found on the web. New studies also shed light on the people of ancient Briton and there migration patterns around and before Stonehenge was built. Nasa has released a stunning and detailed book on our Planet. The pictures along with their full captions are really worth the re

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This months research Papers 20_04_2019 Rethinking CO Antibiosignatures in the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07661 Searching for Exosatellites Orbiting L and T Dwarfs Connecting Planet Formation to Moon Formation and Finding New Temperate Worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08090 The L 98-59 System Three Transiting, Terrestrial-Sized Planets Orbiting a Nearby M-dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08017 The Promise of Data Science for the Technosignatures Field https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08381 Predator-Prey Behaviour in Self-Replicating Interstellar Probes https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00770 https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/are-self-replicating-extraterrestrial-spy-probes-eating-each-other Looking for Lurkers https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09582 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/03/22/a-seti-search-of-earths-co-orbitals/ https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/03/26/gregory-benford-further-thoughts-on-lurkers/ Detecting Earth-like Biosignatures on Rocky Exoplanet

Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand eNewsletter: No. 220, 20 April 2019 Affiliated Societies are welcome to reproduce any item in this email newsletter or on the RASNZ website www.rasnz.org.nz in their own newsletters provided an acknowledgement of the source is also included. Contents  1. Black Hole Imaged  2. Roy Kerr named FRS  3. 2019 RASNZ Conference - New Plymouth  4. The Solar System in May  5. Variable Stars South News  6. New Zealand Starlight Conference, October 2019  7. Astronomy for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion  8. 2020 C

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