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Mtg & Presentation: "Tubehopping on the Interplanetary Superhighway"

May 21
Thu 7:30 PM
Location
Macomb Community College - South Campus, Building B, Room 209

14500 Twelve Mile Rd
Warren, MI 48088

How to find us
"South Campus, Building B, Room 209 - see map on WarrenAstro.org for more detail."

Estimated attendance
 36  people attended.
5.00 5.002

Who organized?
Jonathan Kade,  Robert Berta,  and suitti

This meeting was to be at Grosse Pointe High School, but has been moved back to the normal 3rd Thursday location in room 209 of Building B at Macomb Community College's South Campus.

The Warren Astronomical Society meets monthly on the third Thursday in room 209 of Building B at Macomb Community College's South Campus. We do a bit of club business early on, then have a major presentation usually put together by one of our members.

Larry Phipps, our publications director and WASP newsletter editor, will present "Tubehopping on the Interplanetary Superhighway" Thursday night at MCCC South Campus in Warren. The Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN) is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the solar system that require very little energy for an object to follow. The ITN makes particular use of Lagrange points as locations where trajectories through space can be redirected using little or no energy. These points have the peculiar property of allowing objects to orbit around them, despite the absence of any material object therein.

Larry's presentations have some of the highest production values of anybody's. The presentation is bound to be a multimedia experience to remember.

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  • 36 attendees
    • “ Larry Phipps knows how to put on a show. Phipps presents with humor and visual pizzaz, and "Tubehopping on the Interplanetary Superhighway" has both in abundance. The complex mathematics behind the mysterious gravitational workings of the "Superhighway" is made accessible through excellent choice of slides, and both the sepia-tinted achievements of Newton and Euler and the gee-whiz possibilities of lunar colonies and interplanetary travel are given their due. Lagrange points haven't been this much fun since that '90s cartoon with the kids and the giant robots invading earth. ”
    • “ Larry gives a great talk. The tubes don't just allow us to get nearly free rides all over the solar system. They also allow big chucks of rock to slam into Earth from time to time. ”