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May
27
Monthly Meeting

May Monthly Meeting

Exoplanets and biosignatures - including the latest on the K2-18b kerfuffle

Dr Matthew Bothwell

Matt as most of you know is the head of outreach for the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and always delivers exceedingly good talks to his society. Last years was on Dark Matter but this year's is on "Exoplanets and biosignatures - including the latest on the K2-18b kerfuffle"

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Jun
24
Monthly Meeting

June Monthly Meeting

The Beauty of Falling

Claudia de Rham

While many of us presume to know gravity quite well, the brightest scientists in history have yet to fully answer the simple question: what exactly is gravity? Claudia reveals how great minds—from Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking, Andrea Ghez, and Roger Penrose led her to the edge of knowledge about this fundamental force.

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Apr
29
Monthly Meeting

April Monthly Meeting

New Horizons – Spacecraft to Pluto

David Davies

I’m sure you will remember David’s excellent talk on Apollo 13 from last year. He has a new talk looking at the New Horizon’s mission to Pluto from the story of it’s development, launch and arrival at Pluto. Until relatively recently New Horizons was the fastest man-made object (36,350 mph), now easily superseded by the Parker Solar probe as it continues to wind-up around the Sun (430,000 mph).

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