Enjoy the Rest Flandrau, We’ll Miss You

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/davidlevy/40738932.html

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

World Wide Astronomy Marathon

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/40657397.html

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

Chinese Craft Wacks the Moon

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/40536117.html

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

Kepler mission launches today

http://www.nasa.gov/

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

Glen Burton Elementary School Star Party Mar 6

Glen Burton Elementary School Star Party Mar 6

CANCELED!!! New date being chosen by teacher.

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

NEO Asteroid 2009 - A bunch of links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RKKgMDK7A4

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/02/asteroid-2009-dd45-just-buzzed-by-earth/

http://www.livescience.com/space/090202-asteroid-2009-dd45.html

http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2009/03/asteroid-2009-dd45-close-approach.html

http://transientsky.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090302-asteroid-earth.html

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

10-story-building-sized asteroid flies past Earth

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/04/content_10941213.htm

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Xinhua) -- An asteroid of the size of a 10-story building flew past Earth on Tuesday about twice the distance as the highest Earth-orbiting satellites, the U.S. space website said on Tuesday.

The space rock was about 115 feet (35 meters) wide, perhaps a bit larger than one thought to have created a colossal explosion in the air above Siberia in 1908 that flattened 500,000 acres (2,000 square kilometers) of forest

Asteroid 2009 DD45 was closest to Earth on Tuesday at about 8:40 a.m. ET. It was some 44,740 miles (72,000 km) away. That's twice the height of a geo-stationary communications satellite.

Astronomers had known the asteroid was coming and said there was no risk of collision. Other asteroids have been known to pass by closer to our planet.

Asteroids as big as the 1908 Tunguska object that devastated the Siberian forest might strike Earth as often as once every two centuries, scientists speculate. As space rocks enter Earth's atmosphere, smaller ones can break apart or explode before hitting the surface.

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

Saturday Mar 7 star party CANCELED!

CANCELED! Due to Impending Rain!

Saturn at Opposition star party at PV Park

Mar 7

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

Chaparral High School Star Party for 2night has been CANCELED!!!

Chaparral High School Star Party for 2night has been CANCELED!!!

I think the clouds took it away.
Rescheduling for end of March.

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

A chance to see Stephen Hawking in Tempe?!!!!

NOT a PAS event but enjoy!

Info on the Origins Symposium can be found here http://origins.asu.edu/pdf/origins_symp2009.pdf Tickets go on sale March 4 for ASU students and March 6 for us general public folk. No clue on prices, etc. but it's:

"April 3-6, 2009 The Origins Symposium will inaugurate the new Origins Initiative at ASU. We will assemble in one place a group containing the most well known scientific public intellectuals in the world including Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Craig Venter, Lawrence Krauss, Brian Greene and Donald C. Johanson" (and many many more other really great astronomy speakers)

But...there's more! This Wed.(3.4.9)7:30 $FR.ee Jay Melosh is giving the annual Shoemaker Memorial Lecture at ASU--and they'll have a drawing for 10 sets of Symposium tickets. And not that Jay Melosh is chopped liver! He's given amazing talks to the astro clubs in the past--well worth the trip.

(Gene L--call me)

Hope to see you there!

Jennifer Polakis

480 967 1658

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