| Friday, September 20, 2024
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New and exciting activities in the
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
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Recent News from MacCenter Fellows
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NASA’s Europa Clipper prepares for launch
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| NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will launch next month to conduct a detailed investigation of Jupiter’s moon Europa to determine whether there are places below its icy surface that could support life.
William B. McKinnon, a professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a member of the Europa Clipper science team and a faculty fellow in WashU’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.
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2024 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture
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Dr. Harold Levison is an Institute Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and the principal investigator of the Lucy Mission to tour the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. His research interests lie in the dynamics of astronomical objects. In particular, he focuses on the formation and long-term behavior of solar system bodies. Dr. Levison's work includes studies of the formation of both giant and terrestrial planets, the long-term dynamical behavior of comets, the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the origin and stability of Trojan asteroids, and the formation of satellites.
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International Observe the Moon Night
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MCSS, Physics, and EEPS joined together for an out-of-this-world time at the celebration of International Observe the Moon Night last Saturday. Students gathered for moon stories, space research insights, and later, breathtaking telescope views at Crow Observatory. Over 75 people attended the event.
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Who Discovered the Expanding Universe? Spoiler: Not Hubble!
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St. Louis Astronomical Society
September Meeting
Joseph Marcus
Friday, September 20
7:30pm, McDonnell 162
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| Quantum Entanglement in Nature:
High Temperature Superconductors
and Black Holes
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Physics Feenberg Colloquium
Sachdev Subir
Harvard University
Wednesday, September 25
3:00pm, Crow 204
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Compiled and edited by Alison Verbeck. Please send any contributions to alison@wustl.edu.
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