The small bodies of a planetary system are what is left of the building blocks of the planets, and unlike the planets, they have not undergone geological processes, and are thus much better fossils of the original planetary disk. When these small bodies are disrupted, they contribute to the debris disks we observe around stars. This talk is about how the disruption events can be observed in real time in our Solar System, and maybe also around other stars.
Jane Luu is a renown astronomer who won two of the world's great astronomy prizes: the Kavli Prize for Astrophysics and the Shaw Astronomy Prize. Currently she is Adjunct Professor at PHAB and ITA, University of Oslo.
This Friday colloquium will be hybrid. Attendees can therefore participate either in-person or via Zoom. Please join via Zoom at this link.