Strange New Worlds
When:
11:30, Sunday 29 May 2016
(1 hour 30 minutes)
Where:
Convene 1
How:
Spacecraft and telescopes have revealed a large number of strange places in the universe. We will talk about recent discoveries about new worlds, ranging from asteroids and comets to Mars to Pluto to extrasolar planets.
-Keri Bean, NASA/JPL. Keri does mission operations for the Mars Exploration Rover and Dawn spacecraft.
-Michael Busch, SETI Institute. Michael does planetary astronomy, focused on near-Earth asteroids
-Sanjoy Som, NASA/Ames. Sanjoy does astrobiology and atmospheric geology.
-Keri Bean, NASA/JPL. Keri does mission operations for the Mars Exploration Rover and Dawn spacecraft.
-Michael Busch, SETI Institute. Michael does planetary astronomy, focused on near-Earth asteroids
-Sanjoy Som, NASA/Ames. Sanjoy does astrobiology and atmospheric geology.
