From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Wed Jan 6 08:59:53 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 14:59:53 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] LPI's Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series - January 28, 2016 Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331717A20D3@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) invites all inquisitive adults to attend OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from a Primitive Near-Earth Asteroid, a presentation by Dr. Scott Messenger of NASA's Johnson Space Center. This free public presentation on January 28, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. is the third 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... 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Our other amazing talks are: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties including one later this month, and a brief overview of the Upcoming Trip to Our Dark Site at Ft. McKavett. 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 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 Pizza 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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Even though the Apollo program was led by the United States, analyses of its valuable lunar samples involved scientists from around the world from the first day they were returned to Houston. The spirit of that international endeavor has continued over the past half century, during which a growing number of nations have reached lunar orbit and landed on the lunar surface. [http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/62043main_Footprint_on_moon.jpg]Exploration of the Moon There is a growing realization that the Moon is the best and most accessible place to explore the origin and evolution of the Solar System. As capabilities, such as NASA's Orion crew vehicle, it's Space Launch System, and ESA's Orion service module, are being constructed for flights beyond low-Earth orbit, mission concepts that utilize those capabilities are being developed. In support of the multi-agency International Space Exploration Coordination Group, which has been pursuing a Global Exploration Roadmap, human-assisted robotic sample return missions are being studied. One of those concepts, called HERACLES, could return to Earth exciting new samples that test fundamentally important concepts, such as an early globally-magmatic phase for the Earth and Moon and a subsequent period of severe asteroid and comet bombardment that completely resurfaced the Earth and Moon immediately prior to our earliest evidence of life on Earth. An international group of students recently helped design two potential traverses for the rover in the HERACLES mission concept and will be presenting those results at the upcoming international Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (Martin et al., 2016; McDonald et al., 2016). The Moon remains a guiding light of space exploration. 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Alan Stern, principal investigator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. The presentation will be held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel, Waterway Ballroom 4. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; the presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. This presentation follows the second day of the 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 25446 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Mon Mar 7 12:37:45 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:37:45 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331717CA9D8@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting Be sure to get out and look at the bright 'star' to the East right after sunset. Use binoculars or a telescope and you'll see its Jupiter! It's nearing opposition which means it's as big and bright as it gets. This Friday, Rodney Rocha returns for Part 3 of his Celestial Mechanics Presentation. His crowd participatory demos are entertaining and explain the subject well. Our other amazing talks are: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, "What's Up in the Sky this Month?", a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties, the Novice Q&A, and a report of the Trip to Our Dark Site at Ft. McKavett. 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 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 Pizza 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... 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Are you seeing stars? The New Horizons probe is sending back a ton of information on Pluto from last year's fly-by. This Friday, Dr. Paul Schenk from the Lunar Planetary Institute and member of the Pluto team, will give us the latest update on the findings of the dwarf planet. This should be an informative talk! Our other amazing talks are: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, "What's Up in the Sky this Month?", a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties, and the Novice Q&A where you get to ask us questions! 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 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 Pizza 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... 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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. NEW!! The Lunar and Planetary Institute is now live streaming public presentations through the USRA Houston Ustream channel. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 37499 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Wed May 11 08:15:08 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:15:08 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331018D08F556@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting Ever wonder how the true BIG telescope mirrors are made? Like the 30ft diameter ones at The Keck Observatory? You'll find how it's done this Friday night as Bill Spizzirri from the Fort Bend Astronomy Club will come and tell us all about The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Tucson, AZ. Our other talks will be: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, "What's Up in the Sky this Month?", a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties (there's a bunch this month...and this year...your help is needed!), and the Novice Q&A where you get to ask us questions about astronomy! 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, The Great Courses, 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 Pizza 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 May 11 16:43:31 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 21:43:31 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] HMNS Distinguished Lecture Series In-Reply-To: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331018D09148C@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> References: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331018D09148C@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331018D0914D3@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> LPI scientist Dr. David Kring will give public presentations at the Houston Museum of Natural Science as part of their Distinguished Lecture Series in May and June. Below are more details. A flyer is also attached to this email. We invite you to join us at HMNS for these fascinating presentations! Tickets are required to attend and can be purchased at http://www.hmns.org/education/adults/distinguished-lectures/. [cid:image003.jpg at 01D1ABA2.FF9D8520] A compelling case can be made that exploration of the Moon is the shortest and least expensive route to a fundamental change in our understanding of our origins. The capability being developed with NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion crew vehicle provides the nation with an outstanding opportunity to reinvigorate its space program beyond low-Earth orbit. A decade-long series of studies have identified the best landing sites and traverse routes to maximize scientific return in missions that could be conducted throughout the 2020s. The lunar farside and specifically the Schr?dinger impact basin is the highest priority target. [cid:image006.jpg at 01D1ABA2.FF9D8520] In 2013 the world was riveted by the impact of an asteroid near the Russian town of Chelyabinsk, where over 1,000 people were injured. It was an eerie reminder of another, bigger, impact event that flattened a forest near the Tunguska River in Siberia on June 30, 1908-and a modern-day example of the immense dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impact event in the Yucat?n. As an update to his 2015 Asteroid Day presentation, Dr. David Kring will describe the magnitude of their persisting threat today, and the steps we might take to mitigate these types of calamitous events in the future. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 42043 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image006.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 36896 bytes Desc: image006.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. NEW!! The Lunar and Planetary Institute is now live streaming public presentations through the USRA Houston Ustream channel. ________________________________ A recording of the April 28, 2016 presentation by Dr. Fran Bagenal is now available on the LPI YouTube channel. [cid:image004.jpg at 01D1AC51.3132DB40] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 39032 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is now live streaming public presentations through the USRA Houston Ustream channel. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 39032 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From Shaner at lpi.usra.edu Tue Jun 7 08:55:56 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 13:55:56 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331018D0CFD33@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting The Sun will become a Red Giant star as it ages. Ever wonder what happens to a star 100+ solar masses in size when it dies? Our guest speaker this Friday, Mr. Justin McCollum will explain it in his talk on "Hypernovae". You'll come out of the talk knowing how the heavy elements are created! Our other talks will be: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, "What's Up in the Sky This Month?", a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties (your help is always needed!), and the Novice Q&A where you get to ask us questions about astronomy! 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, The Great Courses, 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 Pizza 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 Tue Jul 5 16:39:48 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 21:39:48 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331018D0E987E@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting Where has the water on Mars gone? Our guest speaker this Friday, Dr. Stephen Clifford from the Lunar & Planetary Institute, will present The History and Distribution of Water on Mars. Our other talks will be: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, "What's Up in the Sky This Month?", a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties (your help is always needed!), and the Novice Q&A where you get to ask us questions about astronomy! 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, The Great Courses, 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 Pizza 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 Tue Aug 9 16:09:45 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 21:09:45 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B114373331018D11B218@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting Paul Maley leads many JSCAS Worldwide Astronomical Expeditions annually. As he has always done once a year, he will present the results of recent expeditions this Friday. He will also present the details of upcoming trips for those who may consider attending. His topics will also include... 1. Results of JSCAS Solar Eclipse Expedition #44, March 9, 2016 2. Asteroid Fireball, June 2, 2016 3. Hitomi Spacecraft Observations 4. Recovery of Spy Satellite USA 186 5. Plans for JSCAS Solar Eclipse Expedition #47, August 2017, to Nebraska 6. Carter House Observatory 7. Transit of Mercury in Bolivia Our other talks will be: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, "What's Up in the Sky This Month?", a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties (your help is always needed!), and the Novice Q&A where you get to ask us questions about astronomy! 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, The Great Courses, 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 Pizza 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 Tue Sep 6 22:03:38 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 03:03:38 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333101A476EA6C@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting Join us this Friday night for the presentation "Fixin' Spaceships" by Jeff Stone from the Johnson Space Center. Jeff worked on nearly 100 Shuttle missions and knows the intricate details of In-Flight Maintenance. Visualize NASA's real life version of 'The Martian' movie and you'll have a good idea why we send humans into space instead of robots. Our other talks will be: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, "What's Up in the Sky This Month?", a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties (your help is always needed!), and the Novice Q&A where you get to ask us questions about astronomy! 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, The Great Courses, 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 Pizza 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 Mon Nov 7 15:40:00 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 21:40:00 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333101A47D33DE@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting Join us this Friday night as Dr. Patricia Reiff from Rice University, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Associate Director for the Rice Space Institute and Outreach Programs, will give a presentation on "Space Weather and the MMS Mission". NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission examines the impact of the solar wind and solar particles on the Earth's protective Magnetosphere. This will be an informative talk that you won't want to miss! Our other talks will be: "Astro Oddities", the informative Member's Minutes, "What's Up in the Sky This Month?", a calendar of this year's Upcoming Star Parties (your help is always needed!), and the Novice Q&A where you get to ask us questions about astronomy! JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! (It's the best offer money can't buy!) After joining, you'll have access to our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (from Astronomy Magazine, NASA, The Great Courses, 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., aka The Lunar & Planetary Institute) Pizza and refreshments follow at Mr. Gatti's Pizza 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 Dec 7 08:29:06 2016 From: Shaner at lpi.usra.edu (Shaner, Andrew) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:29:06 +0000 Subject: [Cosmic-Explorations] Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society Meeting this Friday! Message-ID: <6EA50749A44BB44CAA69F6B11437333101A4812A39@HOUMAIL01.cass.loc> Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society Meeting We're changing up our meeting this Friday! Weather permitting, we'll be outside with telescopes for you to do some observing. Or, if you have a telescope at home that you don't know how to use, this would be the perfect time to get some instruction from club members. If the weather goes cloudy on Friday, there will be "Do-It-Yourself" Astronomy Demonstrations indoors. Either way, this will be a meeting for all ages. Take a little time out of your busy Christmas schedule and see if you can find the Star of Bethlehem. Who knows?...You just might... JSCAS is open to anyone who wants to learn about astronomy and membership is FREE! (It's the best offer money can't buy!) After joining, you'll have access to our amazing Astronomy DVD Library with 100's of choices to learn from (from Astronomy Magazine, NASA, The Great Courses, 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., aka The Lunar & Planetary Institute) Pizza and refreshments follow at Mr. Gatti's Pizza at El Camino Real and Bay Area Blvd. For more info, see our website at jscas.net NOTE: If you loaner DVD's from the JSCAS Library, please keep them until the January meeting. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: