Understanding Lunar Gateway Orbit The Lunar Gateway will be placed in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). This presentation will explain to the audience why this is a fascinating choice. The presenter will walk through the audience first in the basics of Keplerian orbits. He will introduce concepts of halo orbit, Lagrangian points, delta-V and station […]
Tune in to hear about how so-called dark matter is instrumental in building galaxies and why some scientists think it might be fuzzy.
Speaker Night - Dr. Matthew J.O Svensson / The Artemis Program and the 2023 Expedition to Kamestastin Lake, Labrador
The Search for Life on Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover Mission The talk will provide an overview of the goals of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, progress thus far, and plans for returning samples from Mars.Short Biography of Chris Herd Christopher (Chris) Herd has had the dream of studying rocks from Mars since the […]
Solar Eclipse and the Mississauga Centre's Annual General Meeting
In this talk, I will explain the science behind the production of an aurora - from its origins at the Sun's surface to the light show in Earth's atmosphere - and in the process we will see how the evidence left behind by an aurora can be used to sleuth out its connection to ancient records.
How galaxies are shaped by Dr. Leo Yvonne Alcorn from the David A Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UofT
Exploring our Family of Planets to Understand Processes Across the Cosmos
Talk Synopsis The OSIRIS-REx mission is a NASA-lead mission to a carbonaceous Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu and return the sample back to Earth in September 2023. An extended mission will take the spacecraft into orbit around near-Earth asteroid Apophis in 2029. OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016 and rendezvoused with Bennu on December 3, 2018. […]
Climate conditions on Mars
Talk Synopsis Halley's Comet has become so well known that it overshadows the English astronomer's other work -- but Edmond Halley (1656-1742) made important contributions to many branches of science. He worked out the size and shape of the Earth, as well as the size of the solar system; he mapped the Earth’s magnetic field, and […]
Speaker Night: Asteroids and Spacecraft Missions to Asteroids by Professor Arun K. Misra
