In the 20th episode of Exocast we discuss all things #ExoCup What is the ExoCup? How was it conceived? What was the result? Why was it so stressful for the Exocast crew? We take a voxbox from some members of the exoplanet community on their opinions of the ExoCup (inc. Dr. Jessie Christiansen, Dr. Nikole Lewis, Dr. Natalie Batalha, Dr. Abhi Rajan); Andrew reports on the months interesting exoplanetary news that was still churning out
Exocast-1 b In the inaugural exocast episode: • Hannah time travels through the history of exoplanets from the ancient greeks to the future; • Andrew takes a critical look at the habitable zone concept; • Hugh discusses recent news including the potential detection of a magma ocean on the super-Earth 55-Cancri e; • and Andrew adopts Kepler-10 b, the first definitively rocky exoplanet found by Kepler, as our planet of the month. http://media.blubrry.com/exocast/www.exocast.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/exocast1b_v2-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS