{"id":2729,"date":"2019-06-16T00:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T23:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2019-06-12T20:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:20:17","slug":"next-meeting-monday-24th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"Next Meeting : Monday 24th June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor&nbsp;Matt Griffin, Astronomy Instrumentation Group, Cardiff Uni. <\/strong>will be coming to talk to us on the subject of<strong> \u201c<\/strong>Characterising Extra-solar Planets\u201d.&nbsp; Brief summary:-<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2730\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Professor-Matt-Griffin-Cardiff-Uni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2730\" src=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Professor-Matt-Griffin-Cardiff-Uni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Professor-Matt-Griffin-Cardiff-Uni.jpg 200w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Professor-Matt-Griffin-Cardiff-Uni-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof Matt Griffin, Cardiff Uni.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Around 4,000 extra-solar planets have now been detected, and studying them is one of the most important areas of astronomical research today.<\/p>\n<p>Using the technique of transit spectroscopy, it is now starting to be possible to study &nbsp;exoplanets and determine the chemical composition and physical constitutions in their atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>This will be an important objective for both NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope, due for launch in 2022, and ESA&#8217;s ARIEL satellite, a purpose-built exoplanet observatory, to be launched in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll describe the technique and what we can learn from it, and how one day we may be able to detect the presence of life on Earth-like planets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Usual time &amp; place; 7:30pm, The Kings Head, Abergavenny.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone and anyone most welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor&nbsp;Matt Griffin, Astronomy Instrumentation Group, Cardiff Uni. will be coming to talk to us on the subject of \u201cCharacterising Extra-solar Planets\u201d.&nbsp; Brief summary:- &#8220;Around 4,000 extra-solar planets have now been detected, and studying them is one of the most important areas of astronomical research today. Using the technique of transit spectroscopy, it is now starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}