Monthly Archives: May 2015

Public Star Night 19 June 2015 – Dr Suzanne Metlay – Geosciences of Dwarf Planets

Our guest speaker is Dr Suzanne Metlay. The title of her talk is “Geosciences of Dwarf Planets”

Dwarf planets are small worlds with atmospheres and maybe fluids interacting with their rocky/icy surfaces. Let’s look at the geology and meteorology of Ceres and Pluto using the latest data and images from the DAWN and NEW HORIZONS missions.

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Public Star Night – John Ensworth – Quantum Mechanics for 5th Graders

Our guest speaker for this public star night will be our own volunteer John Ensworth and the title of his talk will be “Quantum Mechanics for 5th Graders”.

In this month’s presentation, John Ensworth will take you through the simple observations of the world that force physicists to accept a whole set of strange behaviors seen in the very elements of nature at roughly the molecular size and downward.

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