LET PAS BE YOUR TICKET TO THE STARS!
Contact me: Events@pasaz.org
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I just came across your web site, and I thought you and your members might be interested in my new book, Unmasking Europa, which just came out.
Best wishes,
Richard Greenberg
Professor of Planetary Sciences
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
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Richard sent a pdf with the info about the new book, for which you can download that info here from the PASAZ.org website.
Posted by Terri at 12:31 PM
Happy Thursday to you,
We are looking to pin down volunteers for the Anthem Star Party on Nov 1.
Let me give you a run down of what we have in mind, and then
you tell me where you can assist. Reply right to this Thread so we can
set this up and get the info out to the public!!!
My contact at Anthem needs the info today, so those of you doing something special for this event, may or may not get listed as individual activities, however, he is looking for info on what we have planned, so I am sending him some of the thing we have done in the past.
We need volunteers, and the volunteers do not need to be there all day. We can do it in shifts. If you wish to attend all day, provide an activity or do Solar Viewing, and then stick around for the evening as well, please do. The more we have the better this star party turns out to be.
Daytime: Activities include
Solar Viewing
Hands on demos
Posters of info set up for viewing by public
Evening: Activites are mostly viewing through the telescopes.
Please RSVP with:
1) Day or Evening or Both
2) If Day, what activity (s) do you wish to do?
Your assistance is apprecaited and needed. This is a major event that PAS does, usually yearly. We haven't been there in 1.5 years due to scheduling but we hope to make it a yearly event and be part of the Anthem Fall Celebration. Steve, my contact, has positioned us between two very fun-filled weekends. The weekend before has a special event, and the weekend after has a parade. We are squeezed into the center, so we should,
based on knowing that people already will know we are there, have a nice size crowd. Plan to attend.
If you do not wish to volunteer, but do wish to attend the events, you can RSVP with me. The RSVP would be just in case of weather canceling the event, I can contact you to let you know we won't be having it. Or if you are on the PAS Digest Blog, you will get that info the moment we decide on cancellation.
We are hoping for clear skies. The daytime events can still happen in cloudy skies, mostly, however, if the winds are above 10mph or we have impending rain, we will cancel the event.
RSVp your assistance, today, at Events@pasaz.org.
Thanks
Download the flyer and Map for this event!
HAVE A SPECTACULAR THURSDAY!
Posted by Terri at 10:49 AM
Space Weather News for Sept. 9, 2008
http://spaceweather.com
FIREBALL OUTBURST: This morning, Sept. 9th, a surprising flurry of fireballs lit up the sky over eastern parts of the United States. All-sky cameras at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recorded 25+ meteors, most as bright as Jupiter or Venus. A preliminary analysis by NASA astronomers suggests this is an outburst of "September Perseids," a little-known shower that has erupted this way three times in the past century. Although the show is almost certainly over, sky watchers are advised to be on the lookout for more fireballs tonight and in the nights ahead; the September Perseids are not well understood and they could surprise us again.
Visit http://spaceweather.com for more information and updates to this developing story.
Posted by Terri at 12:49 PM
Most Powerful Atom Smasher
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/08/large-hadron-collider.html
Large Hadron Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
Enjoy!
Posted by Terri at 9:30 AM
http://www.scifest.org/
Sept 26 to Oct 5
Posted by Terri at 2:08 PM
First picture from NASA of water on Mars, amazing and outstanding!!
Posted by Terri at 10:05 AM
Hello Telescope Operators,
I was looking to see how many RSVP's with Telescopes were planning to attend tonight's star party and I see only 1 RSVP. We can't do the star party, a public party, with only one scope to run it. Please, plan to attend. 6-9:30 at the North Mountain Park Visitor Center circle parking area just outside the Visitor Center. If you can make it, RSVP with Terri or on the site.
The weather prediction will be clear all night and fairly decent temps.
Bring your friends, family, and let's make it a party.
Thank you Don for RSVP'ing.
This event has been announced in the newsletter the park service sends out so we know there are many public RSVP's. What I'm looking for is the telescope RSVP's. Let us know now you are planning to attend.
Email Events@pasaz.org or RSVP on the calendar listing for this event. Thanks.
Posted by Terri at 9:57 AM
Mike's QUANTUM SPRING THEORY
Location: Mike's home in Carefree
Dinner: 4pm - 5:30pm - Possibly at Bad Donkey
Lecture: 6pm to end
Evening viewing: From close to lecture to whenever
Whether you have attended the previous 3 lectures or not, this one will be the one that wraps it all up. You won't want to miss this event!
RSVP with Mike. Plan to attend.
Possible dinner at Bad Donkey at 4pm.
If not at Bad Donkey, then order pizza
and share cost right there at Mike's home.
As time gets closer, the decision on dinner will be made.
This is a RAIN or SHINE event.
If it is clear, plan to stick around for a star party afterwards.
We will see you there.
Remember, this event is open to all PAS members.
Non members must contact Mike to RSVP and get map / directions to his home in Carefree. In most cases, Mike will invite you to come join the fun.
We will see you there!!!
Posted by Terri at 9:49 AM
Please enjoy some photos from Mike's lecture
at this link http://tinyurl.com/6lb54f.
We hope to see you at the next one on Sept 27th.
The next one, is the last one in the series
and is entitled "Galactic Evolution."
See you there!!!
Posted by Terri at 9:28 PM
Goto the newsletter section of www.pasaz.org to read it.
Posted by Don Boyd at 3:01 PM
