July 23, 2020 updates Posted on July 23, 2020 by Doug Loss Comments on the contending hypotheses about the origin of life https://web.ist.utl.pt/orfeu.bertolami/Comments_Origin_Life_2020.pdf Possible Atmospheric Diversity of Low Mass Exoplanets – Some Central Aspects https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00716-4 Transits of Known Planets Orbiting a Naked-Eye Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10995 Effect of Sea-ice Drift on the Onset of Snowball Climate on Rapidly Rotating Aqua-planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11179 Constraining the oblateness of transiting planets with photometry and spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11221 Orbital period modulation in hot Jupiter systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11264 A New Method For Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres Using Planetary Infrared Excess https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11438 Relaying Swarms of Low-Mass Interstellar Probes https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11554 Orbital misalignment of the super-Earth π Men c with the spin of its star https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11564 Solar One: A Proposal for The First Crewed Interstellar Spacecraft https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11474