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Authors: Lee Billings
“Habitable Zones around Main Sequence Stars” (Kasting),
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Hadean Eon,
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–40,
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Halley, Edmond,
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Halley’s comet,
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Hart, Michael,
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Hays, Paul,
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heliocentrism,
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Hiroshima,
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Holmes, Dyer Brainerd,
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Holocene Epoch,
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–35,
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Horrocks, Jeremiah,
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Howard, Andrew,
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How to Find a Habitable Planet
(Kasting),
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Hu, Renyu,
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Huang, Su-Shu,
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Hubble, Edwin,
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Hubble Space Telescope,
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–93,
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–7,
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–19,
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human genome project,
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hydraulic fracturing (fracking),
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hydrogen,
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Icarus,
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ice ages,
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Industrial Revolution,
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inflationary theory,
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Ingersoll, Andrew,
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intelligence,
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interferometry,
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International Space Station (ISS),
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–8,
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interstellar travel,
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iron,
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST),
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Jensen-Clem, Becky,
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
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Johnson, Lyndon B.,
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Journal of Geophysical Research,
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Jupiter,
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Galileo’s study of,
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Kepler’s laws and,
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moons of,
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Jupiter-like planets,
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Kasdin, Jeremy,
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Kasting, Jerry,
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Kasting, Jim,
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children of,
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Kasting, Sandy,
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Kasting, Sharon,
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Keck Observatory,
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Kennedy, John F.,
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Kennedy Space Center,
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Kepler, Johannes,
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planetary motion laws of,
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Kepler field stars,
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Kepler Space Telescope,
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–9,
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–30,
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Kirschvink, Joseph,
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Knapp, Mary,
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Korolev, Sergei,
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Kuchner, Marc,
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Kuiper Belt,
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Large Magellanic Cloud,
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Lasaga, Antonio,
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Late Heavy Bombardment,
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Laughlin, Greg,
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–6,
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–50,
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–57,
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–70,
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–100,
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–12,
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–15,
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Alpha Centauri planet search and,
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idea to move Earth,
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magnetic toy of,
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SETI as viewed by,
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valuation equation of,
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laws of nature,
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Lederberg, Joshua,
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Le Gentil, Guillaume,
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Leinbach, Mike,
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Lick, James,
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Lick Observatory,
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life,
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on Earth,
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Earth, life on
intelligent,
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,
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single-celled,
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technological,
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technological civilizations
light:
photons of,
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–16,
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polarization of,
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waves of,
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Lilly, John,
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–16,
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Local Group,
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Lovelock, James,
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–76,
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Lucretius,
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Lyot, Bernard,
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Madwoman of Chaillot, The,
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Manhattan Project,
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Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research,
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Marcellus formation,
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–30,
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Marconi, Guglielmo,
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Marconi Conference Center,
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Marcy, Geoff,
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Margulis, Lynn,
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Mars,
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