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November 9, 2009

Extreme Planetary Atmospheres

Dr. Jonathan Fortney
University of California, Santa Cruz

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Jonathan Fortney of the University of California, Santa Cruz will show how our understanding of planetary atmospheres is being revolutionized by observations of the super-heated class of Jupiter-like planets that orbit very close to their parent stars.