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The Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets: Techniques and Technology - Proceedings of a Conference held in Boulder, Colorado, May 14-17, 1995 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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The Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets: Techniques and Technology - Proceedings of a Conference held in Boulder, Colorado, May 14-17, 1995 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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J 2 J. MICHAEL SHl: LL, HARLEY A. THRO: \SOX, JR., A: '>D S.
ALAN STER: \3 I University of Colorado, Dept. of Astrophysical.
Planetary, &. Atmospheric Sciences 2 University of Wyoming and
KASA Headquarters, Code SR 3 Southwest Research Institute, Boulder
Office On May 15-17. 1995, three Rocky Motultain research
institutions hosted a confererJce to dis cuss the scientific basis,
teclmological options, and programmatic implications of a
large-scale effort to find and study Earth-like planets outside the
Solar System. Our workshop attracted scientists, erJgineers, space
agency administrators, and the public media to discuss and debate
the most promising teclmological options and opportunities. Major
programs and proposals to search for and study exo-planets were
preserJted and discussed. In addition, our meeting - incided .with
NASA's "roadmap" study for the Exploration of Neighboring Planetary
Systems ( "'\PS). Our meeting was the first international
confererJce on this subject, affording an op portunity for several
members of this study to participate in the debates over new
technologies. Our meeting proyed to be timely. Shortly thereafter,
in late 199.5 and early 1996, two groups of astronomers annotulced
the first discoveries of planetary companions to nearby stars.
using high-precision radial velocity measuremerJts to detect the
gravitational reflex motion of the star. The first three detections
include a Jupiter-mass companion to the solar-like star. 51 Pegasi,
and two remarkable objects of mass at least 2. 3 and 6."
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