Just passing this, someone might be interested in sitting in on this.
Debbie
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From: "Night Sky Network" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:58:48 AM
Subject: Tonight: NSN Member webinar on OSIRIS-REx Mission
Hi folks,
This is just a reminder that tonight , at 6:00 pm PDT (July 21) we will be
hosting a live video webinar with Ed Beshore of the asteroid sample-return
mission OSIRIS-REx. It will be a live video webinar with a member Q&A at the
end, and while you probably won't need the slides, we do have them available
here . You can also sign up for the webinar at this link either beforehand or
right before it starts: Registration for OSIRIS-REx webinar
More details on the mission and speaker are below. We hope to see you tonight!
About OSIRIS-REx
On September 8, 2016, an Atlas 5 rocket will depart Cape Canaveral bearing the
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. In doing so, a new chapter in the exploration of the
solar system will begin. After arriving at asteroid Bennu two years later,
OSIRIS-REx will undertake a program of observations to select a site suitable
for retrieving a sample that will be returned to the Earth. Our objective is to
obtain a minimum of 60 grams of Bennu’s surface -- the largest amount of
extra-terrestrial material returned to the Earth since the end of the Apollo
lunar missions.
During the webinar, Ed Beshore will describe the mission's objectives, its
challenges, and the importance of returning a sample of one of the most
primitive objects in the solar system.
About Ed Beshore
Beshore is the Deputy Princ ipal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission at the
University of Arizona. Before he joined the OSIRIS-REx mission, he was
Principal Investigator of the Catalina Sky Survey, a leading discoverer of
Near-Earth Objects. Beshore's professional interests are software systems for
scientific analysis and instrument control. Outside of work, Ed enjoys hiking,
geology, and being amateur astronomer. Someday he hope to find time to dust the
cobwebs off of his 14-inch Celestron and resume photometry of cataclysmic
variable stars.
