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Signposts of Planets

By catdynamics on October 25, 2011.

The Signposts of Planets meeting was held at Goddard Space Flight Center last week

I didn't make it to that one, between pre-commitment to be at the NESC catalysis workshop, and other real life constraints I couldn't get down to Goddard, but, fortunately, they put some of the highlights on the Geeked on Goddard blog...

4 highligts of Signposts on Planets conference:

I also hear via the social networks that there was an announcement of a white dwarf with a substellar companion and a debris disk - that'd be very cool, if confirmed.

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