Earth Hour

Thought this might interest some of you.

http://www.azfamily.com/projectgreen/greenarticles/
stories/KTVKearthhour20080321.123e9b8f.html

or

http://www.earthhour.org.

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

April PAS Meeting Speaker

Good morning,

Dr. Laurice Dee has changed her topic for Thurday's PAS meeting on Apr 3rd.

Her new topic will be: "The Study of Our Solar System by Some of the Robotic Explorers"

See you there.

Also, remember, we have a Special Raffle this month. We will be raffling off a SkyScout. Bring cash, join the raffle.

Drinks and snacks will be provided. Donate to the PAS Snack Fund so we can have really awesome snacks every month! Thanks.

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

Space Weather News for March 26, 2008

Space Weather News for March 26, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

Solar activity is surging.  Three large
sunspots have
materialized and
at least one of them harbors energy for
strong solar flares.  An
M2-class eruption on March 25th hurled
a coronal mass ejection (CME) into
space and emitted radio bursts audible
in shortwave receivers on Earth.
NOAA forecasters estimate a 50% chance
of more M-flares during the next
24 hours.

Visit http://spaceweather.com to see
pictures of the burgeoning
sunspots and to listen to yesterday's
radio flare.

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

A new Constellation is discovered

I found this while searching for info on
the beehive cluster...check it

out, a new constellation
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/cows-p.html

Don

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

John Dobson 3/20

Received this info through the EVAC list.

I thought everyone might want to know.

Original email:

To all of you who know and love John Dobson as a dear friend and teacher,
this is to tell you that lately John hasn't been well.

Last week John had some problems with dizziness and trouble keeping
his balance. He fell, and was taken to the hospital for some tests.
They now believe that John had a stroke. He is scheduled to meet with a
neurologist today to find out more about his condition.

Here’s hoping all turns out well for him….

Martin

Web: meteorites.asu.edu
E-mail: meteorites@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6511

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

Center for Meteorite Studies at ASU 3/28 Open House

Greetings,

The Center for Meteorite Studies at 
Arizona State University would like
to
alert you to an upcoming outreach event
on Friday, March 28, 2008.
 This
Friday (March 28, 2008), the School of
Earth and Space Exploration with

collaboration from the Department of
Physics astronomy graduate
students will
be hosting the 2nd Astronomy Open House
of the semester. The event runs

from 8 pm until 10 pm. We will have
exciting telescope viewing, Physics

demonstrations, Meteorite and mineral display
and a short talk by one
of our
graduate students titled "News from the frontier".
The talk will cover
all the
latest in solar system exploration. Please join
us Friday on the 5th
floor of the
Physical Sciences Bldg. H-wing (ASU Tempe Campus)
for our 2nd activity
of
the semester. More information can be found here:


http://eagle.la.asu.edu/openhouse/


Hope to see you all there,


The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies

Web: meteorites.asu.edu
E-mail: meteorites@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6511

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

2 Really Cool Links

Find out when to look for Satellite flybys using the new Simple Satellite Flybys tool: http://spaceweather.com/flybys.

SOLAR ACTIVITY: Who says the sun is quiet? Two new sunspots are growing rapidly near the sun's equator. Just yesterday they were almost invisible; now the active regions are several times larger than Earth and are putting on a good show for anyone with a backyard solar telescope. Visit http://spaceweather.com for movies, photos and updates.

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

THE LAST BOOKMAN'S TELESCOPE WORKSHOP 3/30

The last, for a while, Bookman's Telescope Workshop will happen on Sunday 3/30 from 4:30 to 6:30pm in the back room.

Bookman's is renovating in April. We do not know if we have the room for the dates after Mar 30th. We'd love to have many people there. RSVP today to help out or to learn how to use your telescope.

Come share your telescope knowledge, or learn from PAS.

Dinner afterwards will be Carlos O'Briens, just down the street and we would love for you to join us there as well.

RSVP is required for Bookman's. RSVP with Terri at Events@pasaz.org. Please RSVP by day before so you are assured to get a seat. Thank you!!!

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

Greenfield Elementary School Star party 3/28

Good afternoon,

The Greenfield Elementary School has a star party planned for this Friday and anyone wishing to help out will need to email Rod to RSVP.
The start time will be 5:30pm. Rod has the details and the map, drop him an email at Rod_Sutter@yahoo.com. Your RSVP by the day before, is requested and appreciated.

Thanks for helping out!

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society

Planet Mnemonic

Planet Mnemonic

It used to be :

My - Mercury
Very - Venus
Educated - Earth
Mother - Mars
Just - Jupiter
Served - Saturn
Us - Uranus
Nine - Neptune
Pizzas - Pluto

Now they are saying this... and I'm taking it straight from an article in the AZ Republic:
(by the way, this article has a ton of typos. So, if it doesn't make sense, it is because I took it word for word but corrected the misspelled words as I went along).

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4th-Trader wins contest for planets mnemonic
Great Falls, Mont.

Those having trouble remembering the newly assigned 11 planets, including three dwarfs, can thank a fourth-grader, Maryn Smith, the winner of the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest, has created a handy way to remember the planets with the phrase: My Very Excited Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants. The 11 recognized planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Eris.
Ceres, Pluto and Eris are considered dwarf planets.

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Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society