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David Charbonneau

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Name: David Charbonneau

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Charbonneau: Janitors critical part of hospitals

By David Charbonneau If we want a fighting chance against hospital infection, were going to have to pay our janitors more. Thats the finding of one U.S. hospital.In B.C., underpaid hospital janitors are a relatively recent occurrence. In 2002, the Campbell ... [Published Kamloops Daily News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Janitor, David Charbonneau, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

NASA’s Kepler space telescope suffers failure that endangers planet-hunting mission

The Kepler Space Telescope, an instrument that altered our sense of our place in the universe by revealing that Earth-sized planets orbited other stars, has suffered a malfunction with a mechanism that helps point the telescope.NASA officials were not ... [Published Boston Globe - May 15 2013]

Entities: David Charbonneau, NASA, Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center, Solar System

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Charbonneau: Moral hazards not part of politics

By David Charbonneau Concepts borrowed from economics and applied to politics can be useless. Take the concept of moral hazard, for example. The name suggests a pitfall that lurks in the course of our daily lives. Its nothing like that. Rather, its a ... [Published Kamloops Daily News - May 08 2013]

Entities: David Charbonneau, Erik Andersen, Mortgages

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

2 Earth-like planets that may support life spotted

Astronomers said on Thursday that they had found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in the outer cosmos, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life and that orbit a star 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra.They ... [Published Times of India - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: David Charbonneau, Dimmer, Solar System

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 2 reports

Max Planck Institute

Kepler telescope spots two planets that could host life

Washington, Apr 20 (TruthDive): Astronomers revealed two new planets in the orbit of a Sun-like star that could have some sort of life, 1,200 light-years away. A light-year is almost 6 trillion miles.The planets, named Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, are orbiting ... [Published TruthDive - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center, David Charbonneau, Max Planck Institute, Solar System, Astronomy

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

Harvard University

Found: 2 earth-style planets

Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows an artist concept of newly discovered planets named Kepler-62e and -f. that scientists found using NASA's Kepler telescope. The two are right place and right size for potential life. The larger left hand ... [Published Compute Scotland - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Harvard University, Astrophysics, James Kasting, David Charbonneau, NASA

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 17 reports

Newfound planets most Earth-like yet

Astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler planet-finding spacecraft said Thursday that they had found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in the outer cosmos, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life and that orbit a star 1,200 light-years ... [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: David Charbonneau, Exoplanet, Dimmer

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

Stars align at astronomy reunion

Camaraderie upstaged heady ideas in Cambridge on Friday, as exoplanet research and talk of the universe’s basic laws competed with a reunion of faculty and students from Harvard’s Astronomy Department . “It was very interesting to catch up,” said ... [Published Harvard Gazette - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Astronomy, Exoplanet, Harvard University, Avi Loeb, Brian Schmidt

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 14 2013 - 1 reports

Habitable Zone Planets: Upping the Numbers

Whether we’re planning to go to the stars on a worldship or with faster transportation, the choice of targets is still evolving, and will be for some time. Indeed, events are moving almost faster than I can keep up with them. It was in early February ... [Published Centauri Dreams - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: David Charbonneau, James Kasting, Zoning, Pennsylvania State University

First reported Feb 11 2013 - Updated Feb 11 2013 - 1 reports

Earth-like planets are right next door

This artist's conception shows a hypothetical habitable planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have found that 6 percent of all red dwarf stars have an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone, which is warm enough for liquid water ... [Published Space Daily - Feb 11 2013]

Entities: David A Aguilar, David Charbonneau, Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center

First reported Feb 06 2013 - Updated Feb 07 2013 - 7 reports

After Huntsville, a Red Dwarf Bonanza

Returning from Huntsville after the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop , I was catching up on emails at the airport when the latest news about exoplanets and red dwarfs popped up on CNN. It was heartening to look around the Huntsville airport ... [Published Centauri Dreams - Feb 07 2013]

Entities: David Charbonneau, Proxima, Radial Velocity, Super-Earths

First reported Jan 07 2013 - Updated Jan 08 2013 - 1 reports

Estimate suggests that our galaxy contains 17 billion sizzling-hot Earths

By Alan Boyle A simulation based on data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission has determined that about one out of every six stars has an Earth-sized planet, which would translate to at least 17 billion such worlds in our Milky Way galaxy. And ... [Published Cosmic Log - Jan 07 2013]

Entities: Log, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,..., Super-Earths, Alan Boyle

Quotes

"This is the first planet that ticks both boxes," Charbonneau said, speaking of the outermost planet, Kepler 62f. "it's the right size and the right temperature." Kepler 62f is 40% bigger than Earth and smack in the middle of the habitable zone, with a 267-day year...

2 Earth-like planets that may support life spotted [Published Times of India - Apr 21 2013]

"This is the first one where I'm thinking 'Huh, Kepler-62-f really might have life on it'," said study co-author David Charbonneau of Harvard. "this is a very important barrier that's been crossed. why wouldn't it have life?"

Found: 2 earth-style planets [Published Compute Scotland - Apr 20 2013]

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Charbonneau: Janitors critical part of hospitals [Published Kamloops Daily News - 2 hours ago]
Kepler epitaph? Eight most intriguing finds of ... [Published Christian Science Monitor - May 20 2013]
University of Massachusetts Lowell Class of 2013 [Published Lowell Sun - May 19 2013]
NASA’s Kepler space telescope suffers failure t... [Published Boston Globe - May 15 2013]
Charbonneau: Moral hazards not part of politics [Published Kamloops Daily News - May 08 2013]
2 Earth-like planets that may support life spotted [Published Times of India - Apr 21 2013]
Found: 2 earth-style planets [Published Compute Scotland - Apr 20 2013]
Kepler telescope spots two planets that could h... [Published TruthDive - Apr 20 2013]
Satellite finds three potentially life-friendly... [Published New York Daily News - Apr 20 2013]
Newfound planets most Earth-like yet [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 19 2013]
Looking like home [Published Scranton Times-Tribune - Apr 19 2013]
Location, location [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 19 2013]
2 planets raise hope at NASA of new life [Published Journal-Gazette - Apr 19 2013]
NASA Discovers Two Earth-Like Planets [Published International Business Times Australia - Apr 19 2013]
NASA telescope discovers distant planets on whi... [Published Japan Times - Apr 19 2013]
NASA Found Two Planets Perfect For Life [Published Fooyoh - Apr 19 2013]
NASA finds planet pair just right for life [Published Seattle Times - Apr 19 2013]
Earth-Like Planets Discovered by NASA (+Photo) [Published Epoch Times - Apr 19 2013]
2 promising places to live, 1,200 light-years f... [Published Anchorage Daily News - Apr 19 2013]
Perfect planets for life? Telescope sees distan... [Published Gnom.es - Apr 19 2013]
Telescope finds ‘Goldilocks’ planets that are j... [Published Hamilton Spectator - Apr 19 2013]
NASA: Distant planets are best candidates yet f... [Published Salt Lake Tribune - Apr 19 2013]
3 planets discovered with right size, location ... [Published Detroit Free Press - Apr 19 2013]
Astronomers Discover Two Earth-Like Planets [Published Complex - Apr 18 2013]
NASA Discovers New Earth-Like Planets Around Di... [Published NHPR - Apr 18 2013]
Nasa's planet discovery the best yet [Published stuff.co.nz - Apr 18 2013]
NASA Just Found the Two Most Perfect Planets fo... [Published Gizmodo - Apr 18 2013]
Not too hot, not too cold. Two newly-discovered... [Published Globe and Mail - Apr 18 2013]
NASA: Twin planets, perfectly habitable, just d... [Published MSN News - Apr 18 2013]
New techniques allow discovery of smallest supe... [Published Science Daily - Apr 18 2013]

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Habitable Zone Planets: Upping the Numbers [Published Centauri Dreams - Mar 14 2013] Whether we’re planning to go to the stars on a worldship or with faster transportation, the choice of targets is still evolving, and will be for some time. Indeed, events are moving almost faster than I can keep up with them. It was in early February ...
Future evidence for extraterrestrial life might... [Published EarthSky - Feb 25 2013] This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf’s planet much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting ...
After Huntsville, a Red Dwarf Bonanza [Published Centauri Dreams - Feb 07 2013] Returning from Huntsville after the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop , I was catching up on emails at the airport when the latest news about exoplanets and red dwarfs popped up on CNN. It was heartening to look around the Huntsville airport ...
Earth-like planets are right next door [Published EarthSky - Feb 06 2013] Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the most ...
Scientists expect to find alien Earths circling... [Published Cosmic Log - Feb 06 2013] ESO An artist's impression shows a planetary system around a red dwarf star. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Follow @b0yle /div> An analysis of data from NASA's Kepler planet-hunting mission suggests that about 6 percent of all ...

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