Hi, I just wanted to extend an invitation to a very special program taking place next Thursday, July 28th in Springfield, Vermont.
If you're interested in attending this event, please contact John Briggs directly via phone or email. Here's a link to the info as well as the schedule below. It's going to be a wonderful event that anyone on this list would enjoy. http://stellafane.org/convention/2011/2011-hartnesshouse.html Thanks! ------ We are pleased to offer a pre-Stellafane workshop, cosponsored by Dudley Observatory, Thursday, July 28th, at the historic Hartness House Inn and Porter-Hartness Museum of Telescope Making located in Springfield, Vermont. We also offer an evening banquet and after-dinner speaker, Dr. Jane Luu, Staff Scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and co-discoverer of the Kuiper Belt. Proceeds will support the Hartness-Porter Museum of Telescope Making, which is run by volunteers from the Springfield Telescope Makers. While associated with the Stellafane Convention, this is a separate event and separate registration and fees apply. Please use the registration form on the first page of this Registration PDF to register for this event. John Briggs is organizing the program, and questions can be directed to him at [email protected], phone 970-343-0618. Dan Lorraine of Seagrave Memorial Observatory is the workshop registrar, [email protected]. In addition to the evening lecture by Dr. Jane Luu, workshop presenters include: · Wayne Zuhl · Richard Sanderson · Michael D. Reynolds · Pete Peterson & John W. Briggs · Scott Stuart · Paul P. Sipiera · Chris Peterson. Schedule and Preliminary Agenda Hartness House Inn, 30 Orchard Street, Springfield, Vermont, 05156; phone 802-885-2115 Note that registration includes coffee breaks and a buffet luncheon at Hartness House. Registration for the evening meal and after-dinner presentation is separate. 8:00 - 8:55 Coffee and Registration 8:55 - 9:00 John W. Briggs Introduction 9:00 - 9:15 Wayne Zuhl Words of Welcome, with an Account of Stellafane's Prized Meteorite 9:15 - 10:15 Richard Sanderson The Night of Raining Fire: The 1833 Leonid Meteor Storm 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Prof. Mike D. Reynolds The Science of Meteorites 11:30 - 11:45 Pete Peterson & John W. Briggs A Demonstration of Astrometrica Shareware for CCD-based Solar System astrometry 11:45 - 12:45 Lunch Concurrent with lunch, the Porter-Hartness Museum of Telescope Making will be open with curator Bert Willard 12:45 - 1:45 Dr. J. Scott Stuart Discovering Near-Earth Asteroids at MIT Lincoln Laboratory 1:45 - 2:45 Professor Paul P. Sipiera Hot Rocks on Blue Ice: Searching for Antarctic Meteorites 2:45 - 3:00 Coffee Break 3:00 - 4:00 Chris L. Peterson Building a Network for All-Sky Video Recording of Meteors 4:00 - 5:00 Panel Discussion 5:00 - 6:15 Cocktails 6:15 - 7:15 Banquet 7:15 - 8:15 Dr. Jane Luu Current Knowledge of the Outer Solar System Bodies ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
