The Misplaced Giant Planets
(2016, original release: 2015)

Nonfiction

eCourse

Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2015
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1198810
LANGUAGE
English
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Investigate 51 Pegasi b, the first planet detected around a Sun-like star, which shocked astronomers by being roughly the size of Jupiter but in an orbit much closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun. Probe the strange characteristics of these “hot Jupiters,” which have turned up around many stars

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Film

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2015

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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