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Past Weekly Lectures

December 14, 2011
Matija Cuk
Resonances and the Angular Momentum of the Earth-Moon System
December 07, 2011
Sara Seager
The Search for Habitable Exoplanets in the Kepler Era and Beyond
November 30, 2011
Erik Asphaug
Inefficient Collisions, Hit-and-Runs, and Splats
November 16, 2011
Mike Wong
Jupiter Picture of the Day
November 09, 2011
Stephen Pekar
Past Climate In Antarctica: Looking Back to Our Future
November 02, 2011
John Stillwell
ET Math: How Different Could It Be?
October 26, 2011
Friedemann Freund
Living with a Star - dangerously
October 19, 2011
Kevin McKeegan
The oxygen isotopic composition of the Sun: implications for solar nebula chemistry
October 12, 2011
Ramakrishna Nemani
Earth science collaborative for ecological forecasting
October 05, 2011
Laurance Doyle
Detecting Circumbinary Planets
September 28, 2011
Robert West
Cassini/Huygens results for the Titan Haze
September 21, 2011
Abhishek Tripathi
SpaceX and the Dragon Spacecraft
September 14, 2011
Paul Groot
Gravitational wave astronomy: a peek through the window
September 07, 2011
Barry Muhlfelder
Gravity Probe B: The Relativity Gyroscope Experiment
August 31, 2011
Lance Dixon
Do We Need String Theory to Quantize Gravity?
August 24, 2011
Geoff Marcy
Kepler and Doppler Searches for ExoEarths and Optical SETI
August 15, 2011
Leslie Sage
How to publish a paper in Nature
August 10, 2011
2011 REU Students' 3-Minute Presentations
August 03, 2011
Scot Rafkin, Southwest Research Institute
Rethinking the General Circulation of the Atmosphere of Mars
July 27, 2011
Anthony Aguirre
Are we living in a multiverse? Eternal inflation, bubbles, and cosmic collisions
July 20, 2011
Bill Bottke
The Great Archean Bombardment, or the Late Late Heavy Bombardment
July 13, 2011
Kevin Zahnle
Is there methane on Mars?
July 06, 2011
Bob Richards
Moon Express - Pioneering the NewSpace Frontier
June 29, 2011
Garth Illingworth
Looking back in time 13 billion years to when the Universe was young: searching for the earliest galaxies with Hubble
June 22, 2011
Richard Russo
Laser Plasma Spectrochemistry
June 15, 2011
Kim Ennico,
Fly Cheap, Fly Often, Fly Safe — Science research & education opportunities on commercial suborbital vehicles
June 08, 2011
Eliza Kempton
Analyzing the atmosphere of Super Earth GJ1214b
June 01, 2011
Marc Kaufman
First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth (BOOK LAUNCH and panel)
May 25, 2011
Bill McKinnon
Why Can't Mimas Be More Like Enceladus?
May 18, 2011
Alexander Rose
Construction on the 10,000 Year Clock Begins
May 12, 2011
Heidi B. Hammel
Planetary Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope
May 04, 2011
Sigrid Close
Tracking and Mitigating Meteoroid Threats to Spacecraft
April 27, 2011
Mark Showalter
How to Catch a Comet: Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the Rippled Rings of Jupiter
April 20, 2011
Ignacio Mosqueira
Origins of the giant planets, their regular satellites and rings: Latest findings and the way forward
April 13, 2011
Cary Zeitlin
Mars Odyssey measurements of radiation at Mars
April 06, 2011
Richard Quinn
The Organism/Organics Exposure to Orbital Stresses (O/OREOS) NanoStatellite Mission
March 30, 2011
David Messerschmitt
Exchanging Information with the Stars: Wide-­?Area Communication Writ Large
March 15, 2011
Scott Hubbard (Stanford and SETI) and Dale Cruikshank (NASA Ames)
Planetary Science Decadal Survey Rollout Town Hall Meeting
March 08, 2011
Andrew Howard
Small planets are common: evidence from the Eta-Earth Survey and the Kepler mission
March 02, 2011
Lori Fenton
Sand Seas in the Solar System
February 23, 2011
Rob French
The Evolution of Saturn's F Ring
February 17, 2011
Michael A'Hearn
EPOXI and Comet 103P/Hartley 2
February 16, 2011
Larisa Mikhaylova
Science Fiction as a bridge between Future Societies and the Contemporary Russian and American Cultures
February 09, 2011
Aaron Zent
Biological and Physical Considerations of Unfrozen Water Films: Mars and Antarctic Dry Valleys
February 02, 2011
Alyssa Rhoden
Cracking under the stress: Europa's orbit, tides, and fracture systems
January 26, 2011
Francis Nimm
Geophysical evidence for an ocean on Titan
January 19, 2011
Alan Stern
New Horizons: NASA's Historic Mission to the Pluto System and Beyond
January 12, 2011
Rick Elphic,
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE): New Mission, Longstanding Questions
January 05, 2011
David Morrison
Near Earth Asteroids as Targets for Human and Robotic Exploration

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