She was a wonderful speaker and began by talking about the Mars landing since it happened that morning...all very fascinating. She seems to talk in schools a lot and I can really see girls and young women being turned onto Science after listening to her.
It was cute when she had a little difficulty converting measurements to non metric. Canadians and most of the world would have understood the metric but of course this is the USA. I see only the US, Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Liberia are on the Imperial system.
What a facility this is! She made a point of saying the same thing. It's just everything about the library and the observatory...wow.
The opportunity for the Star Gazing parties begins at 10am tomorrow. I sure hope I can get spaces for us.
Event Details
NASA and other agencies have an exciting array of spacecraft missions to small bodies in the Solar System: to intriguing asteroids (incluing some "potentially hazardous" asteroids whose orbits bring them into Earth's neighborhood), to an icy body in the outer Solar System beeyond Pluto, and even a demonstration of asteroid deflection as a planetary defense technique. Come hear about the mission encounters with small bodies that are happening in the next few months, and the missions being developed in the coming years.
These are wonderful glossy photos with great info on the back.
Kelly Fast is the Near-Earth Object Observations Program Manager for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. She earned her B.S. in Astrophysics from UCLA and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Maryland. Main-belt asteroid 115434 (2003 TU2) was renamed "Kellyfast" in honor of her contributions to planetary science.
Some stuff she brought from NASA that folks could pick up.
Some cool decals
A bookmark and info on the defense system being developed against asteroids that could cause a problem.
These are wonderful glossy photos with great info on the back.
