[AANC Contacts] What's Up, What Physicists Do, "Return to the Moon" Family Night at NASA Ames, and SFAA/SCAS Mini-Messier-Marathon

[Kenneth Frank]

Hello AANC Club members,

Lots of things to do for this and upcoming month ahead.

Whoops.  Jane just sent her most recent "What's Up" video at JPL is all about Jupiter this 
month, and a great preview to help interpret what you can see in a telescope:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/whatsup/whatsup20080808/
but here's the link again just in case.

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Posters for the Fall 2008 'What Physicists Do' lecture series and the Public Viewing Night 
at Sonoma State University
can be found here:
http://www.planitarium.net/aanc/events/wpd-fall08.pdf

and here:
http://www.planitarium.net/aanc/events/pub-view-nite0808.pdf

For further info contact Cathi Cari-Shudde at: phys.astro at sonoma.edu

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What: "Return to the Moon" Family Night
Where: at NASA Ames
Why:  To inform the public of the upcoming Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its 
attendant Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission
	which will help obtain vital data necessary for the return of humans to the Moon and any 
successful long term presence on the moon.
When: Saturday 6 September 2008 starting at 3:00 to 10 :00 PM

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Finally, the SFAA and SCAS will hold a Mini-Messier-Marathon at Lone Rock Flat, Lake 
Sonoma,  on Friday, August 29th.