The Hawai`i Space Lecture Series

Reconnaissance of the First Planets Discovered in the Galactic Neighborhood THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1998 at 7:30pm by Dr. Geoff Marcy Distinguished University Professor, San Francisco State University Adjunct Professor, U.C.Berkeley

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The best-known, and so far the most-successful, planet search program is that being conducted by Dr. Geoff Marcy of San Francisco State University. GEOFFREY W. MARCY and R. PAUL BUTLER together have found six of the eight planets around sunlike stars reported to date.

For more information about extra-solar planets see:

This presentation will be held at the

NASA
Pacific Regional Planetary Data Center
Sinclair Library Basement, Rm.6
University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i

(There is no charge for this presentation. For more information, call NASA PRPDC at 956-3132)