Joint IAS Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium

Nov
30
1999

Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

Crash, Boom, Bang: Giant Impacts & the Formation of Planets at Home and Abroad
Hilke Schlichting
12:00am|Bloomberg Hall Lecture Hall

Recent observations by the Kepler space telescope have led to the discovery of more than 4000 exoplanet candidates consisting of many systems with Earth- to Neptune-sized objects that reside well inside the orbit of Mercury, around their respective...