December 2022 News and research
Hi Everyone
It’s the Summer solstice this Thursday the 23rd and let hope for some summer weather here. Make sure to note down the date of Stardate and also the Central starparty over this summer.
A range of interesting papers out this month, and if you’re interested in exo planets you are going to have some interesting reading this month.
The Phoenix Astronomical Society.
TPAS Summer Stardate Approaches Fast
The Summer Stardate is between 20 and 23 January 2023 at Stonehenge Aotearoa, Carterton (Wellington Anniversary Weekend). We anticipate excellent night skies for observation. This Stardate will bring an eclectic range of subjects and activities to while the time between observations. Full details are within the program. Tis a grand occasion to enjoy mixing with fellow enthusiasts on a simple basis.
Camping onsite is available for those seeking an edgy near frontier experience.
This event also provides opportunities for those interested in the night sky to explore these interests with practitioners in a supportive environment.
Central Star Party
The eighth Central Star Party will be held from Thursday 12th January to Tuesday 17th of January 2023 (their is no camping Tuesday night) and will be held at the Tuki Tuki Camp site in the Hawkes Bay. This is the site of many previous star parties.
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Research papers
An interesting look here at Venus and some missions to the Planet I'm sure are going to look into this
Ammonia and Phosphine in the Clouds of Venus as Potentially Biological Anomalies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07786
An interesting look at the habitability of the subsurface Ocean at Enceladus
Chemical Fractional Modelling of Enceladus Ocean
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac7a9f#artAbst
Episodic Plate Tectonics on Europa: Evidence for Widespread Patches of Mobile-Lid Behavior in the Antijovian Hemisphere
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007492
Late delivery of exotic chromium to the crust of Mars by water-rich carbonaceous asteroids
https://healthsciences.ku.dk/newsfaculty-news/2022/11/mars-was-covered-by-300-metre-deep-oceans/
Ice Giant Exploration Philosophy Simple, Affordable
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00803
Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-Re planet
https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01GM4AR605WT0Q6TNFREFP5KN6.pdf
Land Fraction Diversity on Earth-like Planets and Implications for their Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09473
The high-albedo, low polarization disk around HD 114082
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11767
the Case for Limited Water Availability on M-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06185
Revisiting the space weather environment of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15697
Liquid water on cold exo-Earths via basal melting of ice sheets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35187-4
Interstellar Probe: Humanity's exploration of the Galaxy Begins
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576522003484?via%3Dihub
Interstellar probe – Destination: Universe!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576522001503
Directed Panspermia Using Interstellar Comets
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1089/ast.2021.0188
An interesting take of the fermi paradox
Our radio signals just haven't traveled far enough yet to make us interesting?
The Fermi Paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the Contact Era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16505
Satellite Constellation Avoidance with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15908
Stormier Southern Hemisphere induced by topography and ocean circulation
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2123512119
Fossil bone histology reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04079-0
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Interesting News items
Ocean Planets
NASA
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/two-exoplanets-may-be-mostly-water-nasas-hubble-and-spitzer-find
Astronomers say a new, huge satellite is as bright as the brightest stars
Satellite Constellation Avoidance with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15908
Bi pedal walking
A very interesting map here to explore
Hawai
A good _e book to read here
A HISTORY OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS RESEARCH
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