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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 - General Membership Meeting at
8:00 PM
will be at this location:
New Franklin City Hall
5611 Manchester Road
Akron, OH 44319
Please note that we
ALWAYS encourage the public to attend ANY of our events, including
meetings.
Come and enjoy the lecture and talk to us about astronomy!
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- Call to order and introduction of tonight's program: |
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Speaker: |
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Dr. Jay Renolds |
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Presentation: |
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“End of the Cassini Mission” |
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Jay will present the final chapter in one
of NASA’s most successful interplanetary missions: Cassini. This mission
visited Jupiter and Saturn, returning amazing photos and reams of data
that will take years to analyze and understand! this presentation will
include some of the most recent images and data. Some of the images to
be presented are in 3D and 3D glasses will be provided by the ACA. |
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About our
speaker: |
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Dr. Reynolds is a Research Astronomer at Cleveland State
University, is a member of the NASA Speakers Bureau, and is
acclaimed as the area's most Visible Scientist. He was and is a
contributor to NASA, presently on the DAWN Project. He gives
over 30 talks a year, and is frequently on radio and television. |
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Jay is also the host of WKYC's "In The Sky"
program.
To see one of the 3D
images that Dr. Reynolds showed us during his excellent
presentation on March 25th 2016, click here.
Of course, you'll need to have your own "red-blue" 3D glasses to
see the mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons on the asteroid Ceres in
three dimensions |
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9:00 PM - Brief coffee-break
/ discussion time |
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9:15 PM - Business meeting
to be called to order and included the following: |
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