For 30 years the Spacewatch Project, at the University of - TopicsExpress



          

For 30 years the Spacewatch Project, at the University of Arizona’s Lunar & Planetary Lab, has been surveying the night sky for asteroids and comets. Spacewatch has observed hundreds of thousands of asteroids & discovered tens of thousands. Tonight at 7:00PM at the library, Terry Bressi, (graduate of York High and University of Arizona), chief engineer for the Spacewatch project, will highlight Spacewatch’s contributions to the astronomical community, the equipment & methods Spacewatch uses to detect asteroids and comets in the solar system, and the dangers posed to the planet by potentially hazardous near earth objects.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:39:03 +0000

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