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February 2024

Season 2024, Ep. 2

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of February 2024.

 

Your host this week is Brett McGuire, with special guests Todd Hunter and Martin Cordiner.

 

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.


Cole's ALMA 10 Yrs Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/10246916

 

In the Percolator, we take a look back at the detection of ethanol in space for the first time.

First Detection of C60 in Space

First Detection of C60 in the Lab

Kroto et al. 1985: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985Natur.318..162K

 

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.


Special thanks this month to ChatGPT!

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