Joe, I'm afraid I missed that meeting. Thaks for your excellent reporting. ALMOST feels like I had attended. If I was there I would have asked the following question: "How can they be sure that any those 1,200 sightings are indeed habitable planets after only 4 months of observation?" He said that to determine if it's a planet there would have to be repeated dimmings of the parent star. If they've found that many repeated dimmings after only 4 months, those 53 "habitable" planets must be extremely close to the star. So close that I would think that they couldn't be in any inhabitable zone. --- On Wed, 3/16/11, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Tuesday's SLAS meet To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 10:14 PM Hi friends, If you missed last night's fascinating meeting, or if you'd like to review what was said, here's my take! http://www.deseretnews.com/blog/47/10011639/Nightly-news-astronomy-Examining... Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com