Franck Marchis

July 25, 2010

FIRST@LICK: Setting up the prototype

On July 14 (Bastille day), shortly after we received the crates, Guy Perrin, astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris and Elsa Huby, a graduate student at […]
July 24, 2010

FIRST@LICK: The Project

On July 13, I received a short email from Elinor Gates, my colleague at Lick Observatory: “The two crates arrived. I will have them moved into […]
July 20, 2010

Keck AO Observations: Multiple Asteroid Systems

I mentioned in my previous post that we observed several known multiple asteroid systems during our last observing run with the W.M. Keck Observatory and its […]
July 15, 2010

Keck AO Observations: Io Volcanism – "Mornes plaines"

It has been a while I did not write anything on this blog. As usual I am late on reporting some news in the world of […]
June 2, 2010

AIDA: A Projects Day at Harvey Mudd College

A new post on this blog is long overdue. I am busy as usual but I have been as well traveling a lot recently… and it […]
April 21, 2010

Venus: Another volcanically active world?

Dear Planetary enthusiasts, Over the past week, we may have heard a lot about a famous volcano in Iceland, named Eyjafjallajokull, which forced more than 64,000 flights […]
April 19, 2010

SETICon in the Bay Area, California (Aug 13-15 2010)

The SETI Institute announced recently that the first SETICon will be held on August 13-15 2010 at Santa Clara in California.  This event is dedicated to […]
April 16, 2010

Corot-9b: Did COROT discover a Pandora-like world?

Hello, I was in Europe last month to attend a workshop on asteroid size and shape and also to visit my colleagues at the observatoire de […]
April 13, 2010

Life at the SETI Institute: Meet myself :)

NB: I found this post in my draft mailbox. I apparently never published it (written in Jan 2010) Hello dear readers, I am still working on […]
March 31, 2010

Telescope Time for 2010B – Spring is back!

Well, like last year the month of March is characterized by a drop in my Blog posting. I should remind those who are not astronomers that […]
March 4, 2010

The E-ELT will be in Chile at the Cerro Armazones?

Hello, An interesting news was released today by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the international organization where I used to work in Chile. The E-ELT Site […]
February 24, 2010

SETI 25th Anniversary 3/6: life – what, where, how, when?

This is definitely the banner for which I am the least qualified to write about since I am not a biologist. It is, however a very […]