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Solar System Lab 5 - Drake Equation.
Stellarium Lab
Drake Equation and Extrasolar Planets
Introduction
Objectives
Procedure
Discussion
Conclusion
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For this lab assignment, you will create a procedure using Stellarium to determine: Are we alone? Since 1995, astronomers have discovered planets in orbit around other stars. The age old question has now reached a point at which it could possibly be able to point at a place and be asked. Astrophysicist Frank Drake along with the late, famed astrophysicist, Carl Sagan, devised a formula (The Drake-Sagan formula or the Drake formula for short) to calculate the chance of a communicating, intelligent civilization existing in our galaxy.
