Greetings Meteorite-Friends!
If you happen to be in the Tucson area next week, you might enjoy this
free event as an interesting way to connect several interests at once!
Note the book's author is well-known meteoriticist Derek Sears.
You will also be treated to an amazing special exhibit about the moon,
moon maps and atlases, and the Apollo program that contains historical
items including original books by Copernicus and Galileo(!) and personal
memorabilia from Gerard Kuiper and Ewen Whitaker (ends Dec. 20). See the
special globe, projector, and camera that were used to make the
Rectified Lunar Atlas - set up for the first time in 50 years.
Kuiper and Apollo: A Talk for the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of
the Apollo 11 Landing
Thursday November 07, 2019
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
University of Arizona
Main Library - Special Collections (located at the east end of the UA
Library kitty-corner SW from LPL)
1510 East University Blvd.
Tucson, Arizona
Author Derek Sears presents his biography Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise
of Modern Planetary Science and describes the life of a man who lived
through some of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century and
ended up creating a new field of scientific research, planetary science.
As NASA and other space agencies explore the solar system, they take
with them many of the ideas and concepts first described by Gerard P.
Kuiper.
Derek W. G. Sears was a professor at the University of Arkansas for
thirty years and is now a senior research scientist at NASA. He has
published widely on meteorites, lunar samples, asteroids, and the
history of planetary science.
Introduction by Dr. Timothy Swindle, Director of the University of
Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
Please RSVP here so UA Special Collections can provide enough refreshments:
https://give.uafoundation.org/NetCommunity/events/KuiperApollo
Perhaps I'll see you there!
Best regards,
Dolores Hill
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