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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John HiattThe video from our September Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fypGq0Y1aZY
Our speaker was John Ensworth. Mr. Ensworth is currently the Senior Science Education Specialist at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. John will take you through the discoveries of Newton and Einstein and see how a simple question about light changed our understanding of the universe.
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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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John HiattThe video from our August Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel.
Former astronaut Joe Tanner talks about Exploration! Also, here is the link to the YouTube video that is referenced at the end of the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=spXqcPRa2bw
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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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John HiattThe Truth about EMP
Open to the Public
August 27th, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Electromagnetic Pulse: Separating Fact from Fiction
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,
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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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John HiattThe latest video from our May 15th, 2015 public talk has just been posted on our YouTube Channel. Our speaker was John Ensworth. Mr. Ensworth is currently the Senior Science Education Specialist at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. In this talk John will take you through the simple observations of nature that force physicists to accept a whole set of strange behaviors in the very elements of nature at roughly the molecular size and downward.
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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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