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Lecture Details
| When: |
March 18, 2009 at 7:30pm |
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| Subject: |
Lecture: “Why an astronomer should care about astrobiology?” |
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Lynn J. Rothschild, NASA Ames |
| Abstract: |
Join Lynn Rothchild for a presentation exploring why an astronomer should care about astrobiology. This talk is aimed at reaching across the academic divide to encourage the dialog between biology and astronomy in service to astrobiology.
Astrobiology focuses on three of our deepest questions: Where did we come from? Where are we going? Are we alone? It has sparked the imagination of students, academics and the public at large. Astrobiology liberates biologists to think of life in other times and places, beyond the single data point present on planet earth. Similarly, it has recast astronomy to think in terms of habitability, from the raw ingredients for life to questions of temperature, obliquity, relationship between parent stars and their planets, the effects of supernovae, and many more.
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| Speaker Bio: |
Lynn Rothchild is an Evolutionary Biologist-Astrobiologist from NASA’s Ames Research Center. |
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