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OCTOBER 28, 2011 - General Membership Meeting
For this month's
meeting, we return to our normal location:
Portage Lakes Kiwanis Civic Center
725 Portage
Lakes Dr
Akron, Ohio 44319
Tonight's Speaker, Clyde
Simpson
8:00 P.M.
Call to order and introduction of tonight's guest speaker:
Clyde Simpson, Observatory Coordinator, Department of Astronomy, Cleveland
Museum of Natural History
Ground rovers and orbiting spacecraft have peeled back many of the
secrets of the Red Planet's desert landscape.
We've even got pieces of
Mars here on Earth - meteorite samples blasted
from the planet's surface.
What more are we looking for, and what are the prospects that we'll go there in
person any time soon?
Click here for additional information
on Clyde and tonight's talk.
9:00 P.M.
Break. Have a cup of Akron's Second-Best cup of free
coffee and a cookie or two while you
talk with fellow members about that latest piece of hardware you just read
about, the recent
comet, Hubble's latest images - or anything else, for that matter.
9:15 P.M.
Business meeting
will be called to order.
10:00 P.M. (approximately)
Meeting will adjourn.
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