Meeting / Club
patrick.kelly@dal.ca
Event in Room: 241
The feature talk will be Rocks from the Sky: Small, Large – Good, Bad by Roy Bishop. Earth itself is composed of rocks from the sky. Presently millions of such bodies are still in the sky, several tonnes of which land on Earth every day. Occasionally one of these is large enough to make headlines, such as the Chelyabinsk meteor last February. Large visitors to the inner Solar System that reach naked-eye visibility, such as Comet Panstarrs last spring, also make the news every few years. The geologic record makes it virtually certain that some of the large objects still out there have Earth's name on them. Whether or not we can prevent them from impacting Earth depends…
A native of Wolfville, Dr. Bishop is a graduate of Acadia, McMaster and the University of Manitoba, and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Acadia. Dr. Bishop is also a founding member, a past-president, and an honourary life member of the Blomidon Naturalists Society, and a Past-President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Last year, he was inducted into Nova Scotia’s Science Hall of Fame. Following his sojourn on the third planet he intends to visit asteroid 6901, which the International Astronomical Union has named “Roybishop”. He and his wife, Gertrude, have three children and seven grandchildren.
patrick.kelly@dal.ca
Event in Room: 241
The feature talk will be Rocks from the Sky: Small, Large – Good, Bad by Roy Bishop. Earth itself is composed of rocks from the sky. Presently millions of such bodies are still in the sky, several tonnes of which land on Earth every day. Occasionally one of these is large enough to make headlines, such as the Chelyabinsk meteor last February. Large visitors to the inner Solar System that reach naked-eye visibility, such as Comet Panstarrs last spring, also make the news every few years. The geologic record makes it virtually certain that some of the large objects still out there have Earth's name on them. Whether or not we can prevent them from impacting Earth depends…
A native of Wolfville, Dr. Bishop is a graduate of Acadia, McMaster and the University of Manitoba, and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Acadia. Dr. Bishop is also a founding member, a past-president, and an honourary life member of the Blomidon Naturalists Society, and a Past-President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Last year, he was inducted into Nova Scotia’s Science Hall of Fame. Following his sojourn on the third planet he intends to visit asteroid 6901, which the International Astronomical Union has named “Roybishop”. He and his wife, Gertrude, have three children and seven grandchildren.
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Pricing: Free
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