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[AZ-Observing] Solar Weekend, Astronomy Day
- From: "Christine Shupla" <shuplac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Steven Dodder" <sdodder@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Terri" <alienstarstuff@xxxxxxxxx>, "gene lucas" <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Tom Polakis" <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>, "Peter Argenziano" <pargenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:18:35 -0700
Hi, Folks!!
The Arizona Science Center has many interesting astronomical items coming
up. On March 19th and 20th, we'll be celebrating "Solar Weekend" with
activities about the Sun. On May 21st, we'll have our "Astronomy Day". If
anyone is interested in joining us with a solar telescope on either day, or
to set up an activity or a table, please contact me or Mignon Gould, who
will be organizing those events.
Mignon A. Gould
Arizona Science Center
Education Events Coordinator
602.716.2000 ext 2552
gouldm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
We also have two lectures coming up that might be of interest, as a part of
our Adults' Night Out program.
FRIDAY, Feb. 4
Mike Floyd, Production Operations Manager for Space and National Systems
Division, General Dynamics
Mike Floyd will discuss the planet Saturn and discoveries regarding Titan,
its enigmatic moon. In January 2005, the Cassini orbiter will release the
Huygens probe, which will descend by parachute into Titan's sky and onto its
surface, providing our first glimpse of the moon's atmosphere.
Friday, March 4
Presentation ? Dance of the Fertile Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrace
George Coyne Ph.D.
Vatican Observatory
The universe we live in is full of a vast variety of objects: gas, galaxies,
frogs, us. What is the best scientific understanding of how they came to be?
Are they related to one another? If we order them from the simplest: quarks,
protons, to the most complex: the human brain, is there a unified
explanation of their coming to be. A tentative answer is found in their
emergence as chance and destiny danced away in a fertile expanding universe.
Does God have something to do with it?
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Christine Shupla
Planetarium Director
Arizona Science Center
(602) 716-2078
shuplac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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