Surprise! Although once thought of as a frozen, silent, slumbering piece of ice, Pluto stunned the scientific world with a tremendous variety of landscapes, materials, and perhaps one of the most active, changeable worlds in our Solar System. Data and images from the New Horizon's spacecraft have been arriving over the past 18 months, revealing mountain ranges of water ice, frozen lakes and flowing glaciers made of nitrogen, and signs of great changes in its atmosphere and climate over billions of years. Mark Breen, the Director of the Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum will share what astronomers are still learning about this famous dwarf planet. But, is this just the beginning? New Horizon's has already made plans to visit an even more distant world, sure to reveal even more about the mysteries of our distant Solar System neighbors.
Mark Breen is the Senior Meteorologist at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, and for over 30 years he has been heard on Vermont Public Radio's an "Eye on the Sky" each weekday morning, and Eye on the Night Sky in the afternoon. He is also the author of the award-winning children’s book, “The Kid’s Book of Weather Forecasting”.
Date: 05/11/2016 (Wed.)
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Location: Roger Clark Memorial Library - Pittsfield, Vermont
PLEASE RSVP seating in limited
Mark Breen is the Senior Meteorologist at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, and for over 30 years he has been heard on Vermont Public Radio's an "Eye on the Sky" each weekday morning, and Eye on the Night Sky in the afternoon. He is also the author of the award-winning children’s book, “The Kid’s Book of Weather Forecasting”.
Date: 05/11/2016 (Wed.)
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Location: Roger Clark Memorial Library - Pittsfield, Vermont
PLEASE RSVP seating in limited
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