Jason Steffen, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will be a co-investigator on a $380,000 grant with Jack Lissauer of NASA Ames Research Center entitled Architecture of Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems.
The project will study data from the NASA Kepler space mission to characterize the orbital properties of the thousands of planets discovered by that mission. The expected results will be key to understanding the important processes of planet formation and dynamical evolution across a variety of planetary systems.
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