[AZ-Observing] Re: Solar Weekend, Astronomy Day

Hello Everyone,=20

I wanted to update you on a date change for Solar Weekend. This years Solar=
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Weekend at the Arizona Science Center will be Saturday, March 12 and Sunday=
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March 13. I look forward to seeing you all there.=20

Best Regards,
Mignon=20


Christine Shupla writes:=20

> The Arizona Science Center has many interesting astronomical items coming=
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> up.  On March 19th and 20th, we'll be celebrating "Solar Weekend" with=20
> activities about the Sun.  On May 21st, we'll have our "Astronomy Day". =
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> If anyone is interested in joining us with a solar telescope on either=20
> day, or to set up an activity or a table, please contact me or Mignon=20
> Gould, who will be organizing those events. =20
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> Mignon A. Gould
> Arizona Science Center
> Education Events Coordinator
> 602.716.2000 ext 2552
> gouldm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =20
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> We also have two lectures coming up that might be of interest, as a part=
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> of our Adults' Night Out program.
> FRIDAY, Feb. 4
> Mike Floyd, Production Operations Manager for Space and National Systems=
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> Division, General Dynamics =20
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> Mike Floyd will discuss the planet Saturn and discoveries regarding Titan=
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> its enigmatic moon. In January 2005, the Cassini orbiter will release the=
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> Huygens probe, which will descend by parachute into Titan's sky and onto=
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> its surface, providing our first glimpse of the moon's atmosphere. =20
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> Friday, March 4 =20
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> Presentation =16 Dance of the Fertile Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrac=
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> George Coyne Ph.D. =20
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> Vatican Observatory =20
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> The universe we live in is full of a vast variety of objects: gas,=20
> galaxies, frogs, us. What is the best scientific understanding of how the=
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> came to be? Are they related to one another? If we order them from the=20
> simplest: quarks, protons, to the most complex: the human brain, is there=
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> a unified explanation of their coming to be. A tentative answer is found=
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> in their emergence as chance and destiny danced away in a fertile=20
> expanding universe. Does God have something to do with it? =20
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Mignon A. Gould
Education Events Coordinator
Arizona Science Center
602-716-2000 ext 2552=20

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