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Upcoming public lecture: Santa Barbara

Want to understand the recent discoveries in the outer solar system and the demotion of Pluto? Come to my talk, November 14th at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on the subject of "How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming." The talk is open to the general public and tickets are now available.

The foggy days of late summer on Titan

Read about our recent discovery of vast banks of fog at the murky south pole of Titan. Finding fog hugging the surface of something so far away and so alien is fun indeed, but there is muc much more. Read on.

Blood spatter in the Kuiper belt

Watch a fascinating set of interviews by Phil Plait (aka The Bad Astronomer) of me, galactic center guru Andrea Ghez, planet sleuth Debra Fischer, and universe accelerator Saul Perlmutter, all live on stage together. This was a fun evening!

People

Darin Ragozzine, former student in the planetary astronomy group at Caltech, is now Dr. Darin Ragozzine, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard. Congratulations Darin!

I was recently inducted into the California Academy of Sciences, which means, among other things, that I get to go visit the spectacular museum for free whenever I am in San Francisco!

Mike Brown's Planets

Read Mike Brown's Planets , a weekly column about space and science, planets (full and dwarf), the sun and the moon and the stars, and the joys and frustrations of search, discovery, and life.

The Planet Hunter

A new children's book by Liz Rusch called The Planet Hunter: The Story Behind What Happened to Pluto describes the search for planets in the outer solar system and the vote to demote Pluto.

The book includes, amazingly, drawings of my childhood dog, my green 1965 VW bug, and, best of all, a drawing of my daughter as she might look when she is a few years older.

 

Contact

Mike Brown
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Mail Stop 150-21
Pasadena, CA 91125
626-395-8423
mbrown@caltech.edu