EVAC Monthly Meeting Speaker Schedule for 2012

January 20th - Tom Polakis of Evac and SAC on Atacama Astronomy

February 17th - Lynn Young of Evac on The Night Sky Network

March 16th - Doloris Hill on Meteorites

April 20th - Rik Hill on NEO's and the Catalina Sky Survey

May 18th - Rogier Windhorst from ASU - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): The new Frontier in the Cosmos after Hubble

June 15th - David A. Williams from ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration - Asteroids, Ion Propulsion, and NASA's Dawn Mission to Vesta

On July 16, 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at 4 Vesta, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a main belt asteroid.
Dawn is spending a year at Vesta to determine the nature of this unique protoplanet, which has evidence of a differentiated
interior and is the source of the HED meteorites.

Join Dr. David Williams of ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration, who is a Participating Scientist on the Dawn
Mission, to discover what we are learning about this unique object in the Solar System.

July 20th - TDB

August 17th - Steven Desch from ASU - "Did Mars Make Chondrules?"

September 21st - Brother Guy Consolmagno - Twenty Five Years of Turning Left: Are We There Yet?

Turn Left at Orion has become one of the most popular guides to using a small telescope ever published,
with more than 100,000 copies sold to date... but the adventures of getting it written and published
were almost as much fun as all the observing we did for the book! Guy will tell stories of the steps,
and missteps, that he and his coauthor Dan Davis went through into various editions of their book.
(Watch out for those pesky wabbits!)

Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is a planetary scientist and Curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory.
A native of Detroit, he studied at MIT (SB 1974, SM 1975) and Arizona (PhD 1978), worked at Harvard and MIT,
served in the Peace Corps, and taught university physics before entering the Jesuits in 1989. At the
Vatican Observatory since 1993, he studies the physics of meteorites and asteroids, and has written
several popular books on astronomy and his life as a Jesuit scientist. He is a past officer of
the International Astronomical Union, who named asteroid 4597 Consolmagno in his honor.

October 19th - TBD

November 16th - Dr. Gerard van Belle - Lowell Observatory

December 21st- Holiday Party Details to follow...

Meeting Site Map

Southeast Regional Library          775 N. Greenfield Road in Gilbert

Pre-Meeting Dinner Map

Old Country Buffet     1855 S. Stapley Drive in Mesa

The red block in the center is the restaurant and the red block to the right is the library.

All monthly meetings are held on the third Friday of the month at the Southeast Regional Library in Gilbert, beginning at 7:30 PM unless noted otherwise.

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