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Hi Everyone Again there is no shortage of interesting research out this month but if I had to pick out a personal highlight it was the paper looking at the search for an outer ice giant in our solar system. If you’re interested in exo planets, Seti and Red dwarfs there will be lots to keep you occupied! Research papers Transiting Planet Detection Limits for Nearby Late Red Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10017 Chemical Diversity of Super-Earths As a Consequence of Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09042 The Design of a Space-based Observation and Tracking System for Interstellar Objects https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00984 Maximal Gravity at the Surface of an Asteroid https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0312029 Concerns about ground based astronomical observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10952 The TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04798 A Census Of Coronal Mass Ejections On Solar-like Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04430 Three planets transiting the evolve...

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Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand eNewsletter: No. 230, 20 February 2020 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. Faint Betelgeuse Imaged  2. 2020 Northern Star Party, Waharau, March 20-22  3. Annual General Meeting Deadline  4. Subscriptions and Reports Due  5. The Solar System in March  6. 2020 Beatrice-Hill-Tinsley Lectures ...