Are you curious what lurks beyond the known planets of our solar system? Come learn about the various efforts to detect Planet 9, brown dwarfs, and other suspected characters hanging out in the outskirts of our solar neighborhood. Timestamps, links, pub trivia questions are included below.

Announcements: 00:00
Presentation on Brown Dwarfs: 13:12
Q&A on Brown Dwarfs : 30:56
Presentation on Planet Nine: 1:01:02
Q&A on Planet Nine: 1:17:58
Pub Trivia Start: 1:36:57
What do the Pointer Stars point to? 1:41:03
Who discovered 8 comets, 500 nebulae, and got a gold medal from RAS? 1:43:34
Where will the next solar eclipse occur? 1:46:22
What was Planet 9 recently hypothesized to be? 1:52:10
What major discoveries occurred at Mt. Wilson? 2:02:23
NASA will soon visit Bennu--what is Bennu? 2:09:55
Where else is phosphene detected besides the clouds of Venus? 2:16:38
What happened ~380,000 years after the Big Bang? 2:26:27
What "ocean" is on the Moon? 2:36:13
Yoda trains Luke Skywalker on what planet? 2:40:21
Closing Remarks: 2:44:11

Participants:

Dr. Jackie Faherty is a staff astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History. She co-leads a dynamic research group called Brown Dwarfs in New York City (BDNYC) which investigates the fundamental properties of the coldest and lowest mass stellar misfits in the Galaxy. As a joint member of the education department at AMNH Faherty strives to create more opportunities for underrepresented minorities to enter STEM fields through unique outreach endeavors. Her favorite star is Eta Carinae and her favorite moon is Enceladus. http://www.jackiefaherty.com/

Forbes named professor Konstantin Batygin the “next physics rock star” in its 2015 list of “30 Under 30: Young Scientists Who Are Changing the World” He received his bachelor’s degree in physics from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2008, before pursuing graduate studies at California Institute of Technology. To date, Batygin has authored over eighty scientific publications, and his research has been featured on the front cover of Scientific American. Prior to joining the faculty at California Institute of Technology in 2014, Batygin was a postdoctoral scholar at Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice, France, and Harvard University. When not doing science, he moonlights as the singer of the rock band The Seventh Season. https://www.konstantinbatygin.com/

Dr. Calen Henderson is a staff scientist at IPAC at Caltech where he splits his time working on the NASA Exoplanet Archive and using gravitational microlensing to detect and characterize exoplanets. He is also a classically trained pianist who loves cycling and hiking in the mountains, and who can't get enough of Wingspan during the quarantine. https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/science/...

Dr. Cameron Hummels is a postdoctoral fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics at Caltech, using large supercomputers to simulate the formation and evolution of galaxies over the billions of years since the Big Bang. He organizes public education events at Caltech Astronomy, including the LA chapter of Astronomy on Tap. During the lockdown, he's been going on long trail runs in the mountains, improving his Russian language proficiency, and playing online chess. http://chummels.org

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