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General Meeting – December 2018
December 7, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION FOR THIS MONTHS MEETING.
THIS MONTH ONLY we will meet in the Kuiper Building of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, 1629 East University Boulevard on the U of A Campus, just east of Flandreau Science Center. Room 308/Third Floor Auditorium (there is a ramp and elevator).
ALSO THIS MONTH, no one is signed up to bring refreshments so anyone who has time, PLEASE bring finger foods to share and put them on the table outside the auditorium.
6:30 pm – Introductory Presentation
Title: Member’s Night
Speaker: Various TAAA Members
If you would like to give a presentation, contact Mae Smith, ssmith@email.arizona.edu.
7:30 pm – Main Presentation
Title: The Parker Solar Probe: NASA’s Mission to Touch the Sun
Speaker: Dr. Joe Giacalone has been a Professor at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory since 1993. He is Co-Investigator on the ISOIS (Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun) instrument on the Parker Solar Probe. This instrument will measure high-energy charged particles accelerated by magnetic fields near the Sun. Dr. Giacalone holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Kansas.
The Parker Solar Probe is truly a mission of discovery. Launched in August of 2018, this historic, seven-year mission has already flown by Venus, and made its first close pass of the Sun — closer to the Sun than any man-made object ever. It will get even closer in the years ahead; as near as 3.8 million miles from the Sun’s surface. Dr. Giacalone will discuss the mission, its goals, and what we expect to discover about the Sun.