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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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Public Star Night 17 April – Dr John Spencer – NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto and beyond

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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Public Star Night 20 March 2015 – Bryan White – Aurora Borealis

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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