Stuart Clark Suffers Injury in Holiday
Accident
As you may be aware, ESA's Dr Stuart Clark was due to
visit Ireland next week on a book-promotion tour organised by Astronomy
Ireland.
Today we were informed that Dr Clark fell while on
holidays in Cornwall, and suffered a broken collar bone. It is understood that
his injuries are not life threatening, but he will be unable to travel for a
minimum of two months.
Luckily, we have another excellent speaker, in the person
of our own Emmet Mordaunt, one of the country's most experienced
science-communicators. Emmet will be speaking on "The Search for Life Beyond
Earth" at Cork Millenium Hall on Monday and NUI Galway on Tuesday. He takes a
layman's view of the prospects of discovering alien life in the coming decade -
a discovery that may be much closer than you think, and just possibly may have
been made already! He also debunks the "little green men" view of
extraterrestrials, basing his ideas firmly within scientific
reasoning.
We all wish Dr Clark a speedy recovery, and hope to have
him over to visit us when he recovers.
The venues and times of the Cork and Galway lectures are
unchanged -
August
13 8pm Millenium Hall,
Cork.
August 14
8pm NUI Galway - Mairtin O Tnuthail
Theatre (Arts Millennium Building).
These lectures have been
organised by Astronomy Ireland, in association with NUI Galway and Cork
Institute of Technology.
Speaker:
Emmet Mordaunt
Title: The
Search for Life Beyond Earth
Admission: 5
Euro (3 Euro to concessions)
Organiser: Astronomy
Ireland
Tickets are available at
the door or visit www.astronomy.ie or call Astronomy
Ireland on (01) 847 0777
ALL WELCOME
Tickets are
available at the door or visit www.astronomy.ie or call Astronomy Ireland
on (01) 847 07 77.
Astronomy
Ireland
Telescope Advice Monday to
Saturday:
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