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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

IMPACTS!!! at ASU

From: Suzie Nowak (CMS)
Subject: Free Lecture on Impacts at ASU
To: CMSNEWS@ASU.EDU
Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 11:44 AM

We thought you might be interested in a free lecture at ASU this Wednesday, March 4, at 7:30pm, entitled "Catastrophic Solar System: Impacts and the Latest Revolution in Earth Science." Information is attached, or can be found at http://beyond.asu.edu. You may also telephone (480) 965-3240. Hope to see you there! ASU Center for Meteorite Studies meteorites@asu.edu

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

Asteroid Flyby

ASTEROID FLYBY: There's no danger of a collision, but newly-discovered asteroid 2009 DD45 will come close enough today when it flies by our planet 72,000 km (0.00048 AU) away. That's only twice the height of a geostationary communications satellite. The asteroid measures 30 to 40 meters across, similar in size to the Tunguska impactor of 1908. Closest approach occurs at approximately 1340 UT (5:40 am PST) on March 2nd. Experienced amateur astronomers may be able to photograph the space rock shining like an 11th magnitude star as it races through the constellations Hydra and Virgo. The timing favors observers in Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and east Asia. Visit http://spaceweather.com for updates and ephemerides.

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

EXPLOITING SPACE - by Mike Marron - Mar 21st

Mike writes:

This group is the Moon Society although all its members also belong to Mensa. The web site is msphx.org (which is a far better name than than PMS). I might be in two papers (Sonoran News and Foothills Focus) railing against the ATT local service 900MHz cell phone towers, the first in AZ.

Meeting Site and our March 2009 Meeting: The Moon Society will be meeting at the Sunset Library in March. It has easy freeway access and is less than 2 miles west of Loop 101 on Ray Road in Chandler. The libraries address and a link to the Google map of its location can be found on our website in both the events section and on the front page under Next Meeting along the right side.

Mike Marron will give a presentation at our March meeting on Exploiting Space. Mike says: I am looking forward to it, big time! I will try to do four summer lectures with star parties.

Saturday, March 21, 3PM

Sunset Public Library

4930 W Ray Road

Chandler, AZ‎

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