RASNZ E-Newsletter From Alan Gilmore RASNZ =================================================. Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand Email Newsletter Number 85, 23 September 2007 =================================================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. Total Lunar Eclipse 2. 2008 RASNZ Conference 3. The Solar System in October 4. Stargazers Getaway Summary 5. Waharua Report 6. Harley Wood Winter School Report 7. Astrophotography Camp 2007 8. Council Nominations Sought 9. 2007 AGM Minutes Available 10. Stardate North Island 2008 11. Stardate South Island 2008 12. NZ IYA Website - Biographies Needed 13. Comet Gilmore P/2007 Q2 14. K-T Extinctions Due to Asteroid Collision Debris? 15. Giant Hole in the Universe 16. Nearest Neutron Star? 17. Stars v. Sand Recounted ...
Research papers and news items for November 2024 Hi everyone some interesting research out this month to read through. Ive just finished reading the S&T article about exoplanet atmospheres, a very good look at what planets can have atmospheres. Research papers The impact of the cosmological constant on past and future star formation https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/535/2/1449/7896079 Making Habitable Worlds Planets Versus Megastructures https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06562 Astronomical engineering a strategy for modifying planetary orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102126 Three Diverging Tales of Planetary Habitability and Windows to Earth's Past and Future https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01150 Haasttse-baad Tessera Ring Complex A Valhalla-Type Impact Structure on Venus? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023JE008256 ...
September 2024 News and research papers Hi Folks Not too many papers this month that I’ve found but there are some really interesting ones well worth a read this month. The Earth having a ring was interesting. There was a look at F type stars I’m thinking Sirius here, perhaps below 2 solar masses and you could have a nice exo planet for life. There is also a look at the fauna of long lost NZ, and a reasonable explanation of the Neanderthals disappearing too, I’m thinking sure the ice ages numbers couldn’t have been too high. A synchronous moon as a possible cause of Mars' initial triaxiality https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14725 Short-timescale Spatial Variability of Ganymede's Optical Aurora https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad49a2 Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X24004230 Nightside Clouds on Tidally-l...
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