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? * * * * * * * * * * Christine Shupla Planetarium Director Arizona Science Center (602) 716-2078 shuplac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.