Monthly Archives: November 2004

This month’s Astrophysics meeting (Friday, Nov. 19) will feature Alex Filippenko’s lecture on the expanding universe, as illuminated by recent supernovae distance studies. Professor Filippenko has been personally active in this area of very active research, so this lecture should be especially rewarding.

The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. in the classroom behind the Centennial Heritage Museum, and we expect that it will begin with Don Lynn’s update on recent developments with the Mars landers, Cassini, etc., including explanations of the pictures he downloads and generously brings to the meetings to share with the rest of us. As usual, the meeting will include discussion of various issues raised by the lecture, current events in the research realm, and otherwise of interest to those in attendance.

For more information, please contact Chris Buchen (buchen@cox.net), the Coordinator for the Astrophysics SIG.

Everyone is welcome – we look forward to seeing you there!

Shelley Bonus has kindly provided us with an extensive list of references she has found, covering myths and stories associated with the constellations from many different cultures. If you know of any that aren’t on her current list, please email her the information – the list is a work in progress,and she’d love to hear from you. To see the full list, please click on the article title.

This is the updated agenda for the Board meeting tonight (Sunday, 11/7/04).
All members are welcome to come to the meeting, but please telephone me at 714/606-1825 in advance if you want to come, as our generous host, Lockheed Martin, needs to know who is expected.