[meteorite-list] Another FREE meteorite public lecture at UA - Lunar & Planetary Lab

From: D. Hill <dhill_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:05:10 -0700
Message-ID: <506A21A6.1090108_at_lpl.arizona.edu>

Hello Meteorite-List Friends,

Here is another free public lecture at the UA's Lunar & Planetary Lab
that might be of interest especially to those in the Tucson area (see
below).

Have you ever wondered where pre-solar grains come from and how they
were incorporated into meteorites of our Solar System? Tom Zega will
describe how they are identified and what they can tell us! You will be
amazed at the tiny scales that provide insight into the big picture!

Kind regards,
Dolores Hill

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
7:00p.m.
Kuiper Space Sciences Building Room 308
1629 E. University Blvd.

"Laboratory-based Astronomy at the Nanometer Scale"

Dr. Tom Zega
Assistant Professor in the Department of Planetary Sciences

Throughout the course of their life cycles, stars shed matter through
dust-driven winds or by outright exploding (supernova). This matter
travels through the interstellar medium where it can become the starting
material for new stars or planetary-forming nebulae. Our solar system
was, among other things, built from such ancient stardust and some of
this material was left over within primitive meteorites, the fossil
relics of our solar nebula. I will show how, using the tools of
nanoscience, we can probe, in the laboratory, such primitive meteorites,
extract from them such ancient stardust, and gain fundamentally new
insights into the histories of the grains and the stars from which they
formed.

More information about Professor Zega is available at:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/resources/faculty/faculty.php?nom=Zega

This event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30p.m.
Parking in university surface parking lots is free after 5 p.m. Please
be careful not to park in service or reserved spaces. Metered street
parking is also available at no cost after 5 p.m. Parking in the Cherry
Avenue Garage is available after 5 p.m. at a cost of $1.00 per hour.

For more information, contact Maria Schuchardt: mariams at LPL.arizona.edu,
621-4861, or go to http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/outreach/

-- 
Dolores H. Hill
Sr. Research Specialist
Lunar&  Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/
Education and Public Outreach Team
Co-Lead Target Asteroids! and Target NEOs! citizen science
OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission
http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu/

Received on Mon 01 Oct 2012 07:05:10 PM PDT