LTO News

  Our guest speaker will be John Ensworth.  The title of his talk will be: “Theories of Everything – from the Beginning of Time to When Time Doesn’t Exist”.  This will be a series of two talks to be performed … Read more →

  Our guest speaker for this Friday will be Dr Suzanne Metlay.  The title of her talk will be: “Hunting Meteorites in Antarctica”. ANSMET is the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program funded by the National Science Foundation. This international program … Read more →

The LTO Volunteer Picnic has been rescheduled to Sunday 5 June from 1 – 5 pm at Karol’s house. Please RSVP with Karol again if you can join us.

Our guest speaker for this Friday is Whitney Cobb, a Senior Consultant at the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL). The title of her talk will be: A Whole New World–Dawn at Asteroid Vesta.   NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is … Read more →

   Our guest speaker is Bob Arentz from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp and the title of his talk will be “Searching for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs)”. The inner solar system is home to the planet we care about the most, … Read more →

Friday, March 18, 2011 7 – 11 PM  Public Star Night at the Little Thompson Observatory, 850 Spartan Ave at Berthoud High School (park east of the high school; directions are posted on our website, www.starkids.org). Our guest speaker is … Read more →

Our guest speaker is Josh Hopkins from Lockheed-Martin Space Systems Company in Littleton, CO.  The title of his talk will be “The Plymouth Rock mission: Human Exploration of the Asteroids”.   In 2010 the President announced that sending astronauts to … Read more →

Our guest speaker is Bryan White, known from past years for his great 3-D comet slide show as well as an out of this world Aurora Borealis show. Bryan White will be selecting Aurora pictures from 2002, 2004, and 2006.  … Read more →

Our guest speaker for this Friday is Dr John Ristvey, a Senior Director at McREL. The title of his talk will be: “Comet Mysteries Revealed: A tale of two spacecraft, three comets, and four missions – Oh My”. Learn about … Read more →

The Little Thompson Science Foundation has received a grant from the Community Foundation and the Berthoud Fund of $4,500. Read more →