10 New Earths

Society Meeting

Thursday, 27th February 2020 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: swmcmeet

How many Earths are there? Near the Solar System. In the Galaxy, in the Universe? This is quite a question. Just increasing the radius of the shell around the Sun then the number of stars (and candidates for more Earths) increases dramatically. There are roughly 2,000 stars at a distance of up to 50 light-years from our Solar System. 64 of them are yellow-orange G stars like our own Sun. As many as 15% of them could have Earth-sized planets in their habitable zones.

This talk looks at ten 'Earth candidates' near the Solar System and examines what they are like with our current understanding and knowledge.

Peter Jalowiczor

Speaker: Peter Jalowiczor


Peter Jalowiczor is an amateur astronomer living in Rotherham. He is primarily known for co-discovering four exoplanets at home using data released to the public by the University of California's Lick-Carnegie Planet Search Team. At University he completed research confirming that k=2 (the delta effect) for comets from work on Halley's Comet. Since 2017 he has been involved in research on brown dwarfs - objects between exoplanets and stars.

 

He has had four books published: two about football and two about WWII. He is also the founder of a football club, known as the Polish Millers. Registered in the Polish Football league. It was mirrored on Rotherham United with a regular feature in the match programme they played in Rotherham United strip! This has also been recognised at the highest level of the Polish Football league.

 

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