Our guest speaker for Friday November 20, 2015 will be Astronaut Loren Shriver. The title of his talk will be “Deploying the Hubble Space Telescope”
Colonel Shriver will share insights from his years of service at NASA, offering attendees a unique appreciation for the vastness of space that has yielded new scientific understandings but still holds great mystery.
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Our guest speaker for Friday October 23 2015 will be Dr Dennis Ebbets. The title of his talk will be “Twenty five years of discovery with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope”
This public lecture and slide show will describe the design and construction of the Hubble Space Telescope,
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Our guest speaker for Friday September 25 2015 will be our own volunteer and member of the board of directors John Ensworth. The title of his talk will be “Relativity for 5th Graders”
In this month’s presentation (part 2 to Quantum Mechanics for 5th Graders given in May 2015),
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Physicist Joe Bowden will present an overview of what science really knows about Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), originating both from natural events and man-made causes such as military weapons and terrorist devices, during a session open to the public at the Little Thompson Observatory in Berthoud, Colorado, on August 27, 2015,
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Our guest speaker for Friday August 21 2015 will be former astronaut Joseph “Joe” Tanner. The title of his talk will be “Exploration”.
Joe Tanner grew up in Danville, Illinois, and studied at the University of Illinois where he graduated in 1973 with a BSc degree in mechanical engineering.
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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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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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Our speaker for this evening will be Dr John Spencer from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder and the title of his talk will be “NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto and beyond”.
On July 14th 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will make the first-ever encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto,
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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 has updated his show with new pictures from 2002, 2004, and 2006. He thought it would be interesting for people to see that there is still outstanding Aurora in Yellowknife during the solar minimum.
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