From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Thu Jan 8 15:41:23 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 21:41:23 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Registration for the January 29, 2015 Cosmic Exploration Speaker Series Presentation Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331716CF76E@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Online registration for the January 29, 2015 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series presentation by Dr. Jill Tarter, "SETI: Real vs. Reel", will open Thursday morning, January 15th, at 10:00 A.M. (CDT). Due to the considerable interest in this series, registration for each presentation in the 2014-2015 series will be required and is only available online. The link to the online registration page will be located at the bottom of the Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series webpage at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures/. Individuals will be able to register up to four guests at one time. Registration is limited to 250. Further information will be available on the registration page. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. Registration is required. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard: Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. There are plenty of parking spaces available for event attendees, and signs will be posted at the shuttle pickup and drop off location at the north side of the lot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: tarter flier.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 508088 bytes Desc: tarter flier.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Thu Jan 15 09:58:55 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:58:55 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Registration Now Open for January 29th Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series Presentation Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331716D2EAF@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Online registration is now available for the January 29, 2015 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series presentation, "SETI: Real vs. Reel", by Dr. Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures/registration/. Due to the considerable interest in this series, registration for each presentation in the 2014-2015 series is required and is only available online. Individuals can register up to four guests at one time. Registration is limited to 250. Further information is available on the registration page. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. Registration is required. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard (heading east): Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. 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After this time, your seat is no longer guaranteed. If you were not able to register, and would like to attend the presentation, you may still be able to gain admission to the presentation. Once you arrive at LPI, your name will be added to a wait-list. If seats are available at 7:25pm, wait-list guests will be admitted in the order they arrived at LPI. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard (heading east): Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. 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If you were not able to register, and would like to attend the presentation, you may still be able to gain admission. Once you arrive at LPI, your name will be added to a wait-list. If seats are available at 7:25pm, wait-list guests will be admitted in the order they arrived at LPI. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard (heading east): Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. 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This free public presentation on February 26, 2015 will preview two historic encounters by two NASA missions visiting the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto over the next several months. This year marks the first exploration ever of two dwarf planets, Ceres and Pluto. Dr. Schenk will provide a preview of two unprecedented missions, Dawn and New Horizons, as they explore the inner and outer solar system, and will share the top questions scientists hope to answer with the data they gather this spring and summer. Dr. Paul M. Schenk is a staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, TX. He specializes in impact craters and other features on icy satellites from Jupiter to Neptune, and in 3-D imaging, which he uses to measure topography and create really amazing views. Dr. Schenk is currently assisting the New Horizons team plan Pluto encounter observations for July 2015 and was a participant in the Dawn mission to Vesta in 2011. Dr. Schenk's presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. No reservation is necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: schenk_flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 693461 bytes Desc: schenk_flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Mon Feb 9 13:45:01 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 19:45:01 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday ! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331716DE528@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting This Friday, our February meeting will feature Paul Maley who will share the wonders of solar eclipses from around the world, the intricacies of timing asteroid occultations to determine their shapes and sizes, and the beauty of the northern lights. He'll also provide a schedule of his upcoming trips. Other topics will include "What's Up This Month" geared to beginners, the always-intriguing "Astro Oddities", dates for our upcoming fun and Public Star Parties (which always need your help), informative Member's Minutes, and the novice Q & A Session. JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! After joining, you'll have access to our Loaner Telescopes and our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (produced by Astronomy Magazine, NASA, Discovery Channel, etc.). Our meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7:30 pm in the lecture hall of the USRA Bldg. (3600 Bay Area Blvd. at Middlebrook Dr.) Pizza and refreshments follow at Double-Daves on Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net Note to all those who have borrowed DVDs from the JSCAS Media Library: PLEASE BRING THEM BACK AT THE BEGINNING & DURING THE BREAK AT THIS MEETING. YES, you can check them out again...or acquire new ones! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dr. Paul M. Schenk is a staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, TX. He specializes in impact craters and other features on icy satellites from Jupiter to Neptune, and in 3-D imaging, which he uses to measure topography and create really amazing views. Dr. Schenk is currently assisting the New Horizons team plan Pluto encounter observations for July 2015 and was a participant in the Dawn mission to Vesta in 2011. Dr. Schenk's presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. No reservation is necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our speaker will be Dr. Britney Schmidt from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Schmidt will discuss the accuracies and inaccuracies of the science and exploration portrayed in the 2013 movie "Europa Report." This movie was not widely released so you may have not heard of it before now. If you would like to watch the movie before April 9th, the LPI library has a copy available for loan. The LPI library is open to the public and is open during regular business hours, 8am-5pm Monday through Friday. Hope to see you in April! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: schmidt_flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 560193 bytes Desc: schmidt_flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Tue Mar 10 15:53:58 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:53:58 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333171702F1C@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting This Friday, our March meeting will feature Dr. Paul Schenk of the Lunar & Planetary Institute who will tell us what scientists are expecting to see when two different missions encounter the dwarf planets Pluto & Ceres, and will share the top questions scientists hope to answer with the data they will gather this year. This is a talk you won't want to miss! Our new feature, Do It Yourself Astronomy, will join our other regular topics including 'What's Up in the Sky This Month?', with suggestions for observing, the intriguing 'Astro Oddities', the novice Q & A Session where you can ask your questions to our membership, a preview of our upcoming star parties, including our trip to our dark sky site at Ft. McKavett, and the informative Member's Minutes. JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! After joining, you'll have access to our Loaner Telescopes and our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (produced by Astronomy Magazine, NASA, Discovery Channel, etc.). Our meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7:30 pm in the lecture hall of the USRA Bldg. (3600 Bay Area Blvd. at Middlebrook Dr.) Pizza and refreshments follow at Double-Daves on Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net Note to all those who have borrowed DVDs from the JSCAS Media Library: PLEASE BRING THEM BACK AT THE BEGINNING & DURING THE BREAK AT THIS MEETING. YES, you can check them out again...or acquire new ones! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Tue Mar 24 16:01:17 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:01:17 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Registration for the April 9, 2015 Cosmic Exploration Speaker Series Presentation Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333171708421@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Online registration for the April 9, 2015 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series presentation of "Europa Report" will open Thursday morning, March 26th at 10:00 A.M. (CDT). Due to the considerable interest in this series, registration for each presentation in the 2014-2015 series will be required and is only available online. The link to the online registration page will be located near the bottom of the Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series webpage at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures/. Individuals will be able to register up to four guests at one time. Registration is limited to 250. Further information will be available on the registration page. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. Registration is required. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard: Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. There are plenty of parking spaces available for event attendees, and signs will be posted at the shuttle pickup and drop off location at the north side of the lot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Thu Mar 26 10:00:05 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:00:05 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Registration Now Open for April 9th Cosmic Explorations Presentation Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333171708BF2@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Online registration is now open for the April 9, 2015 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series presentation, "The Europa Report: A Report", by Dr. Britney Schmidt of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Registration is available at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures/registration/. Due to the considerable interest in this series, registration for each presentation in the 2014-2015 series is required and is only available online. Individuals can register up to four guests at one time. Registration is limited to 250. Further information is available on the registration page. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. Registration is required. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard (heading east): Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. 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Registration is available at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures/registration/. Due to the considerable interest in this series, registration for each presentation in the 2014-2015 series is required and is only available online. Individuals can register up to four guests at one time. Registration is limited to 250. Further information is available on the registration page. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. Registration is required. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. 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Name: shostak_flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 975740 bytes Desc: shostak_flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Tue Apr 7 16:14:23 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 21:14:23 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B1143733317170BECC@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting This Friday, our April meeting will feature Dr. Madhan Tirumalai who will give us our first astrobiology talk explaining how "Extremophiles Redefine the Limits of Life". Organisms like deep sea vent communities and geyser pool bacteria show us that life continually stretches our commonly held boundaries. Perhaps the sub-ice oceans of Europa or Enceladus, or sub-surface on Mars will hold the answer to the great question of life beyond Earth. Our other topics will include 'What's Up in the Sky This Month?', with suggestions for observing, the intriguing 'Astro Oddities', the novice Q & A Session where you can ask your questions to our membership, a preview of our upcoming star parties including our trip to our dark sky site at Ft. McKavett, and the informative Member's Minutes. JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! After joining, you'll have access to our Loaner Telescopes and our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (produced by Astronomy Magazine, NASA, Discovery Channel, etc.). Our meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7:30 pm in the lecture hall of the USRA Bldg. (3600 Bay Area Blvd. at Middlebrook Dr.) Pizza and refreshments follow at Mr. Gatti's at El Camino Real and Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net Note to all those who have borrowed DVDs from the JSCAS Media Library: PLEASE BRING THEM BACK AT THE BEGINNING & DURING THE BREAK AT THIS MEETING. YES, you can check them out again...or acquire new ones! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Thu Apr 23 10:00:22 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:00:22 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Registration Now Open for May 7th Cosmic Explorations Presentation Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331717110D4@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Online registration is now open for the May 7, 2015 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series presentation, "Movie Science: Who Cares if it's Wrong?", by Dr. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute. Registration is available at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures/registration/. Due to the considerable interest in this series, registration for each presentation in the 2014-2015 series is required and is only available online. Individuals can register up to four guests at one time. Registration is limited to 250. Further information is available on the registration page. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. Registration is required. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. 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Name: shostak_flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 975740 bytes Desc: shostak_flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Wed May 6 08:38:09 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 13:38:09 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society meeting this Friday! In-Reply-To: <1669BB52E61E7144894A54EEE622B1561143DE08C8@DMNEXCH.NLW.DMNTX.COM> References: <1669BB52E61E7144894A54EEE622B1561143DE08C8@DMNEXCH.NLW.DMNTX.COM> Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333171719A0B@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting This Friday, our May meeting will feature Astronaut Stan Love who will give us a bird's eye view of the STS-122 Mission that delivered the Columbus Module to the International Space Station. Dr. Love is a talented and engaging speaker and this will be a meeting you won't want to miss! Are you new to astronomy and want to learn what to see in the night time sky? We've got your answer! Our other topics will include 'What's Up in the Sky This Month?' with suggestions for observing, the intriguing 'Astro Oddities', the novice Q & A Session where you can ask your questions to our membership, a preview of our upcoming star parties, and the informative Member's Minutes. JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! After joining, you'll have access to our Loaner Telescopes and our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (produced by Astronomy Magazine, NASA, Discovery Channel, etc.). Our meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7:30 pm in the lecture hall of the USRA Bldg. (3600 Bay Area Blvd. at Middlebrook Dr.) Pizza and refreshments follow at Mr. Gatti's at El Camino Real and Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net Note to all those who have borrowed DVDs from the JSCAS Media Library: The DVD Library will NOT be available at this meeting. 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Once you arrive at LPI, your name will be added to a wait-list. If seats are available at 7:25pm, wait-list guests will be admitted in the order they arrived at LPI. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard (heading east): Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. There are plenty of parking spaces available for event attendees, and signs will be posted at the shuttle pickup and drop off location at the north side of the lot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: shostak_flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 975740 bytes Desc: shostak_flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Tue Jun 9 09:01:50 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:01:50 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society meeting this Friday! In-Reply-To: <1669BB52E61E7144894A54EEE622B1561143F3889A@DMNEXCH.NLW.DMNTX.COM> References: <1669BB52E61E7144894A54EEE622B1561143F3889A@DMNEXCH.NLW.DMNTX.COM> Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331717267CB@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting Our June speaker will be Mark Matney from the Johnson Space Center presenting "The Challenge of Orbital Debris". Here's an opportunity to learn if the Kessler Syndrome (like in the movie "Gravity") has real ramifications for NASA and commercial spaceflight. Are you new to astronomy and want to learn what to see in the night time sky? We've got your answer! Our other topics will include 'What's Up in the Sky This Month?' with suggestions for observing, the intriguing 'Astro Oddities', the novice Q&A Session where you can ask your questions to our membership, a preview of our upcoming star parties, and the informative Member's Minute. JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! After joining, you'll have access to our Loaner Telescopes and our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (produced by Astronomy Magazine, NASA, Discovery Channel, etc.). Our meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7:30 pm in the lecture hall of the USRA Bldg. (3600 Bay Area Blvd. at Middlebrook Dr.) Pizza and refreshments follow at Mr. Gatti's at El Camino Real and Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net Note to all those who have borrowed DVDs from the JSCAS Media Library: PLEASE BRING THEM BACK AT THE BEGINNING & DURING THE BREAK AT THIS MEETING. 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(Coupons not accepted online.) ________________________________ [cid:image002.jpg at 01D0B271.E2B0A3A0]Asteroid Day Lecture at HMNS "The Threat of Asteroid Impacts: From the Age of Dinosaurs to the Present Day" David Kring, Ph.D., LPI Tuesday, June 30 | 6:30 p.m. June 30 has been declared Asteroid Day for the massive impact event that flattened a forest near the Tunguska River in Siberia on June 30, 1908?a modern-day example of the immense dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impact event in the Yucat?n. Dr. David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute will describe Earth?s scarred geologic past and magnitude of asteroid threat today, and how to mitigate future impact catastrophe. A special evening screening of Impact in the Burke Baker Planetarium at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. is complimentary for lecture ticket holders. Click here for tickets. More info available at BeyondBones blog. Rare Astronomical Event on Asteroid Day 2015 A very special close encounter in the western evening sky happens the evening of June 30, International Asteroid Day. Venus and Jupiter will pass extremely close together, less than a third of a degree apart! (The full Moon is a half-degree across, so these planets will be closer than the width of the moon.) Right now, Venus is pulling in front of us and Jupiter is on the other side of the Sun, bringing Venus and Jupiter close together in Earth?s sky. After Tuesday night, they will begin to pull apart. After the Dr. Kring?s lecture, Dr. Carolyn Sumners will lead a planet-gazing to see this rare astronomical event. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The schedule can also be viewed at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures/. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. and are followed by a light reception. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please visit http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Are you new to astronomy and want to learn what to see in the night time sky? We've got your answer! "What's Up in the July Sky?" will help you to be able to find and observe noteworthy objects. Our other talks include the always intriguing 'Astro Oddities', the novice Q&A Session where you can ask your questions to our membership, a preview of our upcoming star parties, and the informative Member's Minute. JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! After joining, you'll have access to our Loaner Telescopes and our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (produced by Astronomy Magazine, NASA, Discovery Channel, etc.). Our meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7:30 pm in the lecture hall of the USRA Bldg. (3600 Bay Area Blvd. at Middlebrook Dr.) Pizza and refreshments and further discussions follow at Mr. Gatti's at El Camino Real and Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net Note to all those who have borrowed DVDs from the JSCAS Media Library: PLEASE BRING THEM BACK AT THE BEGINNING & DURING THE BREAK AT THIS MEETING. YES, you can check them out again...or acquire new ones! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Wed Jul 29 14:37:27 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:37:27 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] LPI's Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series - September 3, 2015 Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331717310B7@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> The Lunar and Planetary Institute invites all inquisitive adults to attend NASA's Exploration of Ceres and Pluto: An Update, a presentation by Dr. Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. This free public presentation on September 3, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. is the first presentation in LPI's 2015-2016 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series, "Solar System Exploration Today and Tomorrow." LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. No reservation is necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. 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The 2015-2016 series continues November 5, 2015 with a preview of the InSight mission launching to Mars in March 2016. InSight Principal Investigator Dr. Bruce Banerdt of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will present Exploring the Birth of Rocky Planets: The InSight Mission to Mars. Please see the attached flyer for more information. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. and are followed by a light reception. No reservations are necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. 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Name: banerdt flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 913454 bytes Desc: banerdt flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Tue Sep 1 08:46:27 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 13:46:27 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] REMINDER: LPI's Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series - September 3, 2015 Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333171746444@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> The Lunar and Planetary Institute invites all inquisitive adults to attend NASA's Exploration of Ceres and Pluto: An Update, a presentation by Dr. Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. This free public presentation on September 3, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. is the first presentation in LPI's 2015-2016 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series, "Solar System Exploration Today and Tomorrow." The 2015-2016 series continues November 5, 2015 with a preview of the InSight mission launching to Mars in March 2016. InSight Principal Investigator Dr. Bruce Banerdt of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will present Exploring the Birth of Rocky Planets: The InSight Mission to Mars. Please see the attached flyer for more information. LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. and are followed by a light reception. No reservations are necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard: Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. There are plenty of parking spaces available for event attendees, and signs will be posted at the shuttle pickup and drop off location at the north side of the lot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: schenk_flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 778592 bytes Desc: schenk_flyer.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: banerdt flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 913454 bytes Desc: banerdt flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Thu Sep 3 08:30:58 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:30:58 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] LPI's Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series - TONIGHT Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333171746EEB@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> The Lunar and Planetary Institute invites all inquisitive adults to attend NASA's Exploration of Ceres and Pluto: An Update, a presentation by Dr. Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. This free public presentation on September 3, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. is the first presentation in LPI's 2015-2016 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series, "Solar System Exploration Today and Tomorrow." LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. and are followed by a light reception. No reservations are necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard: Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. 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And he'll also be on hand to answer your questions about our luminous satellite. Our other entertaining talks are: "What's Up In the September Sky", to help find noteworthy objects in the nighttime sky, the impressive "Astro Oddities", the "Novice Q & A Session" for YOUR questions to our membership, and the informative Member's Minutes. (They've been super impressive here of late.) There is also a preview of our upcoming star parties. (Our dark site trip is next month!...info abounds!) JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! After joining, you'll have access to our Loaner Telescopes and our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (produced by Astronomy Magazine, NASA, Discovery Channel, etc.). Our meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7:30 pm in the lecture hall of the USRA Bldg. (3600 Bay Area Blvd. at Middlebrook Dr.) Pizza and refreshments and further discussions follow at Mr. Gatti's at El Camino Real and Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net Note to all those who have borrowed DVDs from the JSCAS Media Library: THE DVD LIBRARY WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR THIS MEETING...so feel free to keep your DVDs until the next meeting. However, if you wish to turn them in, feel free to do so. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. and are followed by a light reception. No reservations are necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard: Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. 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Name: banerdt flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 913454 bytes Desc: banerdt flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Mon Oct 26 14:58:07 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:58:07 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] LPI's Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series - November 5, 2015 In-Reply-To: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331717641B7@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> References: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331717641B7@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B1143733317178E28B@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) invites all inquisitive adults to attend Exploring the Birth of Rocky Planets: The InSight Mission to Mars, a presentation by Dr. Bruce Banerdt of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This free public presentation on November 5, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. is the second presentation in LPI's 2015-2016 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series, "Solar System Exploration Today and Tomorrow." LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. and are followed by a light reception. No reservations are necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard: Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. 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This free public presentation on November 5, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. is the second presentation in LPI's 2015-2016 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series, "Solar System Exploration Today and Tomorrow." LPI's Cosmic Explorations presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. and are followed by a light reception. No reservations are necessary. LPI is located in the USRA building at 3600 Bay Area Boulevard in the Clear Lake region of Houston; the entrance is located on Middlebrook Drive. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, please go to http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lectures or contact Andrew Shaner at 281-486-2163 or shaner at lpi.usra.edu. Important Note About Parking - Limited visitor parking is available at the USRA building for public speaker attendees, so once the visitor parking section is full, attendees are asked to park in the University Baptist Church (UBC) parking lot. A shuttle bus will run throughout the event to take attendees to and from their cars. Directions from Bay Area Boulevard: Turn left on Middlebrook Drive and continue 0.4 miles. The UBC parking lot will be on the right, just past Glenshannon Drive. There are plenty of parking spaces available for event attendees, and signs will be posted at the shuttle pickup and drop off location at the north side of the lot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: banerdt flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 918370 bytes Desc: banerdt flyer.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Messenger_Flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 3296750 bytes Desc: Messenger_Flyer.pdf URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Tue Nov 10 14:58:09 2015 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:58:09 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B1143733317179167A@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting On Friday, we're having a special meeting! Our main talk is by Leonard Ferguson of the Fort Bend Astronomy Club and will be on Asteroid Bennu Sample Return Mission by NASA. Our other talks will be the always interesting "Astro Oddities", and our Upcoming Star Parties. But that's not all: Got a telescope collecting dust or thinking about buying one? Well, we're going to use the second half of the meeting for hands-on demonstrations that you can participate in. You can chose to attend either... How to Collimate a Telescope How to set-up a Go-To telescope Learn how to use a Planisphere & Star Atlas to make observing EASY! Make your own Smart Phone Holder for Astrophotography JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! After joining, you'll have access to our Loaner Telescopes and our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (from Astronomy Magazine, NASA, Discovery, etc.). Our meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7:30 pm in the lecture hall of the USRA Bldg. (3600 Bay Area Blvd. at Middlebrook Dr.) Pizza and refreshments follow at Double-Daves on Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net Note to all those who have borrowed DVDs from the JSCAS Media Library: PLEASE BRING THEM BACK AT THE BEGINNING & DURING THE BREAK AT THIS MEETING. YES, you can check them out again...or acquire new ones! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: