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 Lecture: "From Telescope to Microscope"
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lrjarhead
 Wednesday, April 21 2010 @ 09:04 am EDT (Read 3157 times)  
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On Monday, 26 April 2010, 7 - 8 p.m., at the University of Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Science Theater (Room 201), Old Museum Building, a free lecture will be given by Dr. Michael Zolensky, NASA Johnson Space Center. The lecture will describe how we captured pieces of comet and the messages they carry. Sounds very interesting - Barbara and I plan to attend.
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 Monday, April 26 2010 @ 09:41 am EDT  
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http://www.uafortsmith.edu/About/CampusMap#Building_Legend

Which building would this be on the map? Question


 
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 Monday, April 26 2010 @ 01:56 pm EDT  
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Is this Ft. Smith or Fayetteville campus?


 
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 Monday, April 26 2010 @ 02:14 pm EDT  
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Mike H. -

I believe this is at the Fayetteville campus.


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 Wednesday, April 28 2010 @ 05:46 pm EDT  
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Ahhhh!! Evil I didn't read carefully your post Mike! I was convinced the talk was at Fort Smith, hence couldn't attend. I missed you and the talk just watching TV or some other silly thing during that time. How was it?
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 Thursday, April 29 2010 @ 09:38 am EDT  
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Pablo,
The lecture was so-so. The power point was a little dated - and several "typos", which were distracting. Nothing was presented that was too earth shattering with the exception that comet samples showed some previous heat cycle (chrondite (sp?) formation, which wasn't expected. The handling of micron size dust particles was interesting and the fact that they were able to slice these tiny particles into many thin strips for further examination
under an electron microscope was facinating. I was somewhat disappointed that no mention was made of water content (none in samples?) nor tie-in to much of earth's water supply as being delivered via comets.
Mike


 
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