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Moon at Apogee

The Moon’s distance from Earth varies throughout its monthly orbit because the Moon’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular. Every month, the Moon’s eccentric orbit carries it to apogee – its most distant point from […]

Lord Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize for nuclear physics, b. 1871

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS, HonFRSE (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be […]

Labor Day (USA)

Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday in September in any given year (i.e. a single day from September 1 through September 7) to honor and recognize […]

Europlanet Science Congress

Online

Čapek D., Kohout T., Pachman J., Macke R. J., and Koten P. will discuss "Digital 3D shapes suitable for the description of meteoroids" at the Europlanet Science Congress 2021. #EPSC2021-306. […]

Mission to Mars in KSP

Online

Bob Trembley gives a live demo of a space mission to another planet in Kerbal Space Program, from launch to landing – without the 8 month wait! Catastrophic unplanned disassembly […]

Tour of the Solar System in SpaceEngine

Online

Bob Trembley gives a live tour of some interesting places around our solar system using SpaceEngine: Saturn’s Rings, Pluto and Charon, Mercury’s double sunrise, and more! Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83948071812?pwd=dGFlOEJrSDJ3c3c3Ty9IeHdHTW9udz09 […]