Posted on 2:41 am, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Tags: europa, keck observatory, kevin hand, mike brown
MEDIA RELEASE Observations of Europa from the W. M. Keck Observatory help NASA and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers go one step further in demonstrating life may be possible in the ocean of one of Jupiter’s moons. In addition to the known existence of water, a paper published today shows hydrogen peroxide is abundant […]
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Posted on 12:03 am, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Tags: europa, keck observatory, kevin hand, mike brown
MEDIA RELEASE With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper-belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest […]
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Posted on 12:34 am, Thursday, September 15, 2011. Tags: keck observatory, mike brown, pluto
MEDIA RELEASE * How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming: A lecture by Caltech’s Dr. Mike Brown 7 p.m. (Hawaii time), Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011 There are now almost 6,000 members of Keck Nation around the world, which means most can’t attend our public lectures in Hawaii. Now, for the first time, […]
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