Registration is required for this free, digital occasion: https://bit.ly/meteor-talk We all know in regards to the sort of devastation that main meteor strikes could cause simply by what occurred on February 15, 2013. On that date, a house-sized meteor entered Earth's ambiance and exploded about 14 miles above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shock wave it generated …
Registration is required for this free, digital occasion: https://bit.ly/meteor-talk
We all know in regards to the sort of devastation that main meteor strikes could cause simply by what occurred on February 15, 2013. On that date, a house-sized meteor entered Earth’s ambiance and exploded about 14 miles above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shock wave it generated blew out home windows in an space of over 200 sq. miles, injuring about 1,600 individuals. Scientists have plucked greater than 45,000 meteorites from the ice in Antarctica. Every of those “area rocks” carries a narrative in regards to the composition of our photo voltaic system and the situations that existed early in its growth. It was just lately estimated that as many as 300,000 extra meteorites and their tales are nonetheless out on the ice ready to be discovered. Prof. Alan Rice will inform us in regards to the Antarctic meteors and what we will study from them.
Alan Rice, DESc, acquired his diploma from Columbia College. He was a professor of geophysics, geology, sustainability, oceanography, physics and engineering within the Division of Earth and Local weather Sciences, San Francisco State College. Whereas working at Stony Brook College, and within the division of Earth and Planetary Sciences on the American Museum of Pure Historical past (the place he ceaselessly collaborated with the Hayden Planetarium), he carried out analysis on the prevalence and penalties of a number of meteoric impacts in Antarctica. He has been an Advisory Board member of Hamptons Observatory since its inception.
Hamptons Observatory extends its appreciation to Prof. Rice for generously taking the time to share his experience and to the John Jermain Memorial Library for its form collaboration on this program.
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