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

From: D. Hill <dhill_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:52:46 -0700
Message-ID: <506A1EBE.10803_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

> 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 06:52:46 PM PDT