2024 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2024

Session

M-HERZ Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture | Conférence publique commémorative Herzberg - John Moores, CSA

M-HERZ

27 May 2024, 19:45

Western University

Conveners

M-HERZ Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture | Conférence publique commémorative Herzberg - John Moores, CSA

• Martin Williams (University of Guelph)

4503. Our Celestial Rosetta Stone: Exploring our Family of Planets to Understand Processes Across the Cosmos

Dr John Moores (Canadian Space Agency & York University)

27/05/2024, 19:45

Herzberg Public and Plenary Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg et plénières

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

In the past 30 years, telescopes in space and on the ground have discovered thousands of extrasolar planets, providing us with a representative sample of the worlds that orbit other stars in our galaxy for the first time. However, our knowledge of these planets is limited to no more than a few datapoints for each one by the vast distances that separates us. Yet, though these places live mainly...