Exploring Strange New Worlds: From Giant Planets to Super Earths
First Announcement - November 16 2010 The NASA ExoPlanet
Exploration Program and the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute are
co-hosting the 6th in a series of international scientific
conferences on the topic of present and future observations of
exoplanets from space. The conference will present state-of-the
art results from the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, the
Kepler and CoRot transit missions, as well as relevant ground-
based facilities. Noted theoreticians will provide perspective
and interpretation of the observational results of the physical
characterization of planets ranging in size from gas and icy
giants, super Earths, and (ultimately) Earth analogs. Speakers
will emphasize how exoplanet observations help us understand the
formation and evolution of objects in our own Solar System.
Speakers will also look toward the future with a focus on the
exoplanet observations using the James Webb Space Telescope
(JWST) and ESA's GAIA astrome