RASC Hamilton Fwd: public lecture Tuesday

[Andy Blanchard]

Peter asked me to forward this link to everyone about the presentation on Tuesday night.

Andy Blanchard. 

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> From: "Jedicke, Peter" <PJedicke at fanshawec.ca>
> Date: 10 June, 2012 1:54:35 AM EDT
> To: Andy Blanchard <ablanchard at cogeco.ca>
> Subject: public lecture Tuesday
> 
> Thanks for a great evening, Andy.
> PJ
>  
> http://origins.physics.mcmaster.ca/lectures.php
> http://multimedia.mcmaster.ca/Whidden/index.html
> http://origins.mcmaster.ca/oi_planets/index.php?p=programme
>  
> on Tuesday 2012-06-12 at 20:00
> there will be a public lecture by
> Ray Jayawardhana
> Canada Research Chair in observational astrophysics at the University of Toronto
> Rocks, Ice and Penguins:
> Searching for Clues to Planetary Origins in Antarctica
> 
> For five frigid weeks in 2010-11, Jayawardhana traded giant telescopes in Hawaii and Chile for snowmobiles in Antarctica. Camping out on a remote ice field, trying to avoid frostbite and crevasses during their daily excursions on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on Earth, he and his ANSMET teammates scooped up hundreds of meteorites preserved in the polar desert environment. In this lively talk, he will recount their bone-chilling adventure, and discuss what these precious bits of cosmic flotsam reveal about the origins of planetary systems and perhaps even the building blocks of life itself.
> 
> Ray Jayawardhana is a graduate of Yale and Harvard, a member of "Canada’s Top 40 Under 40," and author of over eighty papers in scientific journals.
> 
> The location is McMaster University, room 104 in Chester New Hall (CNH-104)
> Campus Map http://www.mcmaster.ca/welcome/findus.cfm 
> Parking Info http://origins.mcmaster.ca/parking.html
>  
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