CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wernher Von Braun, Sara Seager, Circumstellar Habitable Zone

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

Document Summary

Robert goddard: first to launch rocket (liquid filled) Became head of designs in the us. Apollo 11: landing on the moon, neil armstrong. Exoplanets: planet that orbits a star other than the sun; thousands exists. No idea what they look like (no pictures) We want a planet in the habitual zone (not too hot and not too cold) Planet finding technique: recording the stars" brightness when a planet is in front of it. Smaller stars have habitable zones that are closer; goldilocks zone . A super earth transiting a small star. Transiting exoplanet survey telescope goal is to find closest 1000m stars and surrounding. If earth 2. 0 exists: find and identify by 2020s. Spectra are required to identify planets as earth-like. Narrates the present paranormal topics as explanations for cosmic or natural forces. Led to the origin of the study of bigfoot creatures.