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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Greetings JSCAS Members - <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> We will be having our January meeting this Friday, 1/8, at 7:30 online on the JSCAS YouTube channel which can be accessed at this link:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1NUQVpZ8mB2h5JFVra_tg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1NUQVpZ8mB2h5JFVra_tg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Here is the agenda for this month's meeting:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Wingdings 2"">ê</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:.3pt">Update:
C.L.E.V.E.R. Planets Project - Dr. Andrea Isella, Rice University</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Wingdings 2"">ê</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:.3pt">Member’s Minute – Conjunction Images - Chris Wells & Treavor Quinn</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Wingdings 2"">ê</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:.3pt">Member’s Minute – M1 Project – Doug Holland
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Wingdings 2"">ê</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:.3pt">Star Party News – David Haviland</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Our Main Presentation</span></u></b><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Dr. <span class="ydpb0119c48yiv3712646613gmail-il">Andrea</span> Isella</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> of Rice University
will present a talk “<b><u>C.L.E.V.E.R Planets Project, an Update</u>”.</b></span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">You can learn more about him and his research here:</span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <a href="http://planetformation.rice.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;color:black">http://planetformation.rice.edu/</span></a></span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">The talk include what it takes to make a life-bearing planet:</span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">1)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;color:#26282A"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Form the planet</span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ydpb0119c48yiv3712646613msonormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">2)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;color:#26282A"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Bombard the planet
with a source of water</span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">3)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;color:#26282A"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Geology releases
life-giving elements</span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">4)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;color:#26282A"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Life-giving elements
are redistributed</span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">5)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;color:#26282A"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Life-giving elements
recombine and life arises</span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Each of these has a research group. Dr. Isella’s group studies step #1: Where, when, and how do rocky planets form? What is
their abundance of ingredients necessary for life?</span><span style="color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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