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meetings.
Come and enjoy the lecture and talk to us about astronomy!
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| 8:00 PM
- Call to order and introduction of tonight's program: |
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Speaker: |
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Dr. Ralph Harvey, Principal Investigator and Field Team Leader
for the US Antarctic Search for Meteorites
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Presentation: |
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Antarctic Meteorites: Sifting the sands
of the Solar System |
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Since 1969, nearly 50,000
meteorite specimens have been systematically recovered from
the East Antarctic icesheet, more than 20,000 of these by
the US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program. These
samples have done more than fill the larders of museums and
research institutions; they have fundamentally changed our
under-standing of the solar system. Antarctic meteorites are
the only reliable, continuous, and readily available source
of new planetary material, naturally swept up by the Earth
as it cascades through space, and revealing the fundamental
building blocks of the solar system. |
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Bio:
Ralph P. Harvey is an Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. A graduate of Beloit
College with a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, he has been the
Principal Investigator and field team leader for the US Antarctic Search
for Meteorites program since 1991. He is an author or co-author on more
than 100 publications on diverse topics in the planetary sciences,
ranging from micrometeorites to icesheet dynamics to the history of
Mars. He is a principal investigator in NSF's Office of Polar Programs
as well as NASA's Cosmochemistry and Mars Fundamental Research programs.
He is a frequent contributor to science instrument and landing site
definition panels for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. He was recently a
member of the preliminary examination team for the STARDUST sample
return mission, and both an asteroid and an Antarctic mountain now bear
his name.
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9:00 PM - Brief coffee-break
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9:15 PM - Business meeting
to be called to order and included the following: |
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● Treasurer's Report |
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● Observatory Director's Report |
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● Calls for observations |
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● New Business |
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