SPECIAL EVENT: "Exoplanet Exploration" talk by Stephen Edberg of NASA/JPL
May '09
15
Fri
7:30 PM
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39221 Woodward Ave
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
248.645.3200
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"In the main auditorium - ask at front desk."
- Attendance
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95 people attended.
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Jonathan Kade, Robert Berta, and suitti - Price
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$10.00 per person
refund policy
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95 attendees
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Outreach Director, 2009-2010“ Stephen Edberg's presentation on the whys and hows of discovering planets beyond our solar system made a highly sophisticated field of astronomy accessible without watering it down. The look at proposed instruments to find earth-like planets was fascinating-- imagine being able to know the weather and temperature patterns on a planet many light years away! Edberg's way of illustrating the Doppler shift was especially entertaining. ” -
Publications Director, 2010“ Dr Edberg is a great speaker, and well prepared. His own professional interest in this stems from work on a space mission that has not launched as yet. Like the "Kepler mission", which recently launched, it should be able to detect Earth like planets around stars other than the Sun. It's a mission that complements Kepler in many ways. ” -
Treasurer, 2010“ Stephen Edberg gave a talk that covered the science of exoplanet detection rigorously but accessibly. His props were effective at demonstrating the Doppler effect and the center of mass of a gravitationally-boun
d pair of objects. He gave a great overview of all of the proposed space observatories that could advance exoplanet study by leaps and bounds. ”
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Second Vice-President (Observatory Chair), 2010“ Excellent speaker...perfect level for the audience...not too high end nor overly simplified. My 9 year old son enjoyed the talk and plans to do a report at his class. He had Edburg sign a poster addressed to his teacher so is looking forward to "wowing" her ;-) ” -
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I asked my wife if i could bring our 12 year old. But she didn't know what an exoplanet is. Short for EXtra sOlar PLANET, these are planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Why are they interesting? They'll tell us something about how our own solar system formed and how common planets like ours are in the galaxy. Might there be life out there? The discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy promises to be an Earth shaking event.
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