Astronomy Ireland's next Public Lecture will be quite a
unique event at which you can touch and hold rocks that have come from another
planet! A minor planet, or asteroid, in fact. For that
is what meteorites are - rocks that have fallen to Earth from space having been
blasted off another world typically millions of years ago.
Dr Ian Sanders, an 'astro-geologist', will bring along
samples from his meteorite collection to illustrate his talk:
“Meteorites and the Origin
of the Solar System”
at 8pm on Monday October 10 in Dublin
City University
(Henry Grattan Building, Lecture
Theatre CG12)
Actual meteorites, some quiet valuable, will be
passed out in to the audience!
The talk is aimed at the general public so bring some
friends.
Admission is 5euro
(3euro for members,students,under
18,OAP,unwaged)
For those outside Leinster a DVD will be made of this
lecture and can be ordered online at
Please forward this email to anyone who may be interested.
Thank you.
David Moore, Chairman, Astronomy
Ireland
Tel (01) 847 0777