New Year Sale DVD Membership Shop 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. Astronomy Ireland The world's most popular Astronomy Club www.astronomy.ie ( subscribe / unsubscribe )