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. […]
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Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members
Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy Please register on the Riverwood website
Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members
Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members Randy Attwood: Canada’s First Astronaut – 40 year anniversary On October 5, 1984, Marc Garneau became Canada’s first space traveler when he was launched on the Space Shuttle Challenger during the 13th Space Shuttle mission, STS 41-G. Randy will show some pictures of the event to celebrate […]
Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy Please register on the Riverwood website
Climate conditions on Mars
Raghav: Building a Dobsonion base (15 mins) David: Yerkes Observatory (15mins) Purvesh Dev: Common myths in astronomy Raghav: Kahoot (15-20 mins)
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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 […]
Potpourri Meeting UTM student talks: Joseph Tang: Searching for Stellar Streams with 10 Million Stars in the Milky Way Alyssa Atkinson: Very Long Baseline Interferometry Timing for Localizations Member talks: Dalisay Perez: Northern Lights from an airplane Keith Jarvie and Fred Benedikt: Light Pollution Abatement - As Easy as a Walk in the Park?
