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1. Meteorite
Landing Site Announced
After analysing hundreds of reports following last
Tuesday's spectacular fireball event Astronomy Ireland has deduced that
meteorites from the object are likely to have fallen into the Irish Sea off the
coast of Co Louth, and the official announcement will be made at our New Year Lecture Has The
God Particle Been Found? tonight in Trinity College
Dublin.
However,
as the object would have begun to disintegrate before plunging into the water,
some fragments may have fallen on land along the coast of Louth. Astronomy
Ireland welcomes further reports of fireball sightings via its website at www.astronomy.ie/fireball. If
members of the public find any unusual rocks in the area, they are invited to
send photos to observe@astronomy.ie.
Meteorites are likely to be small, blackened fragments, with pock marks similar
to thumbprint indents on the surface.
2. Change of Lecture
Venue
Due
to phenomenal demand, tonight's lecture will now take place in the MacNeil
Theatre in the Hamilton Building in Trinity College Dublin. This building is
easily accessed by the Pearse St Entrance (at the Science Gallery) to the
campus. A map of Trinity College can be found HERE.
In the last number of weeks scientists at CERN
underneath Geneva, Switzerland have found a signal for The God Particle and
which is bound to result in a Nobel Prize.
The last Nobel Prize they got was for finding the W and Z
particles (they control nuclear energy and atomic bombs) and the man who wrote
the popular level book about the discovery - Professor Peter Watkins - has
arrived in Ireland to give our New Year Lecture tonight, Monday, January
9th at 8pm
Tickets for the
lecture are available at the door and are only €7 (€5 members rate),
and the lecture begins at 8pm.
After the lecture there will
be a social reception in The Lombard. All are welcome to attend.
For more information on the
lecture please visit www.astronomy.ie.
3. Telescope
Watches All This Week
Following
the success of last week's Jupiter Watches, Astronomy Ireland will continue to
watch the skies all this week between 4pm and 6pm at its premises at Airside
Enterprise Centre in Swords, Co Dublin. Members of the public are invited to
come along to use some of Ireland's most powerful telescopes in a unique and
exciting opportunity to see the wonders of the Universe. Directions can be found
at www.astronomy.ie/map.
This is
an ideal evening out for friends and family to try out some astronomy under the
guidance of experienced astronomers who will answer any questions about space
and astronomy you might have.