[meteorite-list] Meteors, Meteorites and Minor Planet symposium in Vermont

From: Wayne Zuhl <wayne.zuhl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:21:04 -0400
Message-ID: <CAAYTCPDxeHUYX7wnk5enekjhKPFfwOFfqLMVLNu_D06K36xOsA_at_mail.gmail.com>

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!

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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
john.w.briggs at gmail.com, phone 970-343-0618. Dan Lorraine of Seagrave
Memorial Observatory is the workshop registrar, dwlorraine at aol.com.

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
Received on Sat 23 Jul 2011 05:21:04 PM PDT