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Winter 2004 Read about Professor Charbonneau's Sleuth Planet Search Telescope in the December 2004 National Geographic. See the new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on Origins: Life's First 3 Billion Years. Fall 2004 Welcome new professor David Charbonneau, who arrives this fall, to the Astronomy Department. May 2004 Andy Knoll presents "Was Mars ever a Biological Planet?" on Monday, May 10 in the EPS Colloquium Series. ASTROPHYSICS of PLANETARY SYSTEMS, The 3rd Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics, May 17-20, 2004 at Harvard University's Gutman Library Spring 2004 The Opportunity Rover finds evidence for past water on Mars!: Harvard Gazette article. Sabine Stanley and Jeremy Bloxham study odd magnetism of Neptune and Uranus. Nature paper; Harvard Gazette article. Contratulations to Sabine Stanley for the best student paper award at the Fall AGU meeting: "Can Mercury's Weak Surface Magnetic Field be Generated by a Dynamo?" Mars Rovers, January-February 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity" active on Mars!Professor Andrew Knoll is one of the Science Team Members. New Moons and Planets, Summer 2003 New Moons Found Around Neptune: Matt Holman and collegues discover 3 new moons. CfA astronomers discover farthest known planet: Dimitar Sasselov and collegues discover transiting planet. Read more. Water is prime candidate for surface runoff on Mars, October 2002 Sarah Stewart and Francis Nimmo find that carbon dioxide could not form the recent surface runoff features on Mars. (Stewart, S. T., and F. Nimmo. Surface runoff features on Mars: Testing the carbon dioxide formation hypothesis, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets 107(E9), 5069, doi: 10.1029/2000JE001465, 2002.) Birth of the Solar System, August 2002 Independent research by the Harvard Geochemistry group (Yin et al. Nature 2002) and a German group (Kleine et al. 2002) found that the earth differentiated early than previously thought. Read the reports by CNN and Al Cameron's News and Views. Read the articles (requires a subscription to Nature): |
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