OBSERVATORY NEWS September 2014 Published by the Friends of the Observatory (FOTO) Volume 25 No. 9 513-321-5186 www.cincinnatiobservatory.org Bill Cartwright, editor

neighbors, to tell them about COMING UP AT ScopeOut! ScopeOut promises to be THE OBSERVATORY.... especially excellent this year, with several hands-on science projects for adults and children, and some FOTOKids Sep 5 7p exciting new exhibitors. Dale Friday Sep 5 8p Zoller is still looking for Observe the Moon Night Sep 6 8p volunteers to help with parking, Stargazing at Lincoln Ridge Sep 6 8p gift shop and other tasks to help *FOTO Member’s Meeting Sep 8 7:30p this event run smoothly. If you Ultimate Educators Expo Sep 10 12-6p volunteer to help with a shift you Astronomy Thursday Sep 11 8p can attend ScopeOut for free, but ScopeOut 2014 Sep 13 12-10p you must sign up in advance.

History Tours Sep 14 1-4p It is time to start thinking about Astronomy Thursday Sep 18 8p THE WORD FOTO Board elections, which will Astronomy Friday Sep 19 8p be held in October. Frank Huss is heading the Nominating Late Night Date Night Sep 20 10:30p By Michelle Lierl Gainey Committee. Please consider Stonelick Stargaze Sep 20 dusk serving FOTO and COC by ** Life on Other Worlds? Sep 22 7p Hello friends! With summer running for a position on the Astrophoto Workshop Sep 25 7p winding down and autumn around Board. Positions open for election Astronomy Thursday Sep 25 8p the corner, there is a lot going on at include President, Vice President, Astronomy Friday Sep 26 8p the Observatory and in the night Secretary, Treasurer and 2 of the Stonelick Stargaze Sep 27 dusk sky. This Saturday, September 6 is Trustee positions. Nominations Great Outdoor Weekend Sep 27 7-10p International Observe the Moon will be taken at the FOTO meeting Great Outdoor Weekend Sep 28 1-4p night. If you are not assigned to on September 8 and again at the help with this event at the October meeting before the *Note the monthly FOTO Members Observatory, please consider elections, or you can contact Frank Meeting is usually 2nd Mondays - 7:30pm at participating in one of the Huss to nominate yourself or the Observatory Sidewalk Astronomy events someone else for a Board position. ** UC Communiversity Course (contact Dean Regas for We had a FOTO members’ information), or just set up your Save-The-Dates! Movie Night at COC on August 25 telescope or binoculars in your and watched “In the Shadow of the Space Day @ iSpace Oct 4 own neighborhood and share with Moon”. Thanks to Aashi for Scout Pin Night Oct 4 your neighbors. It is fun to get a organizing this event, to Dave Lunar Eclipse Oct 8 Moon map (easily available on McBride for bringing a Stargazing 101 Oct 15 line) and learn to identify the major professional popcorn maker (great Partial Solar Eclipse Oct 23 features you see in your telescope popcorn!) and to other members Meet a Meteorite Nov 1 or binoculars. Remember, when for bringing snacks and drinks. you are talking with friends and 1 The movie is an excellent documentary about the Apollo ScopeOut 2014 ScopeOut 2014 Update Moon missions, with Telescope Festival at the By Dale Zoller reminiscences and inside perspectives from several of the ScopeOut 2014 will be held astronauts and wonderful footage Cincinnati Observatory Saturday, September 13, 2014. As taken from the surface of the in the past, the main event will run Moon. It is available on YouTube, Saturday, September 13 from 12-5 pm. We will hold the so if you did not make it to Movie Noon - 11 pm raffle drawing from 5-6 pm and Night. I highly recommend you then the dinner and keynote The Cincinnati Observatory watch it! presentation from 6-8:30 pm. This celebrates the telescope with an Don’t forget to go outside at year's keynote speaker is James all-day (and all night) open house night this month with your Albury, co-host of the PBS show featuring a very special guest: telescope or binoculars and enjoy " Gazers." Mr. Albury's topic James Albury, co-host of the TV the night sky! We still have all the will be "Backyard Astronomy." program Star Gazers. beautiful summer objects high in Viewing will follow the keynote Activities include safe viewing the sky in the evening, and the fall presentation from 9-11pm (weather of the Sun, displays by Tesla objects coming up later. Just for permitting). This year's dinner is Motors and Stratus Helicopters, fun, see if you can find Comet catered by Bella Luna Italian kid’s activities, classes, educational Jacques with your binoculars or Restaurant. The menu includes telescope! It is a magnitude 7 materials for teachers, meteorites, tours of our historic buildings and chicken parmesan, vegetarian comet, heading away from the sun lasagna, salad and rolls. Tickets and passed Earth’s orbit on August more astronomical door prizes than you can imagine. You may for the speaker/dinner are $25. 29. Jacques will be passing Contact the Observatory office at through the Cygnus even win a telescope. Great for all ages. 513.321.5186 to make your over the next couple of weeks. reservations. Here is a link to its trajectory: http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalo SCHEDULE OF EVENTS and Admission g/2014E2/2014E2.html

Noon to 5 pm Main displays, FOTO Kids and Teens classes, and tours - $7/adults, $5/kids By Aashi Mital 6 pm to 8:30 pm Dinner by Bella Luna and keynote lecture by James We hope that you enjoyed the tour Albury - $25/person (reservations of our Solar System last month, required) Good news! The "Ball Drop" but the Universe has plenty more 9 pm to 11 pm Nighttime raffle is back on. The chances will to offer! See you at our next viewing through the historic be $5 per ball or 5 balls for $20. meeting on Friday, September 5th telescopes (weather permitting) $5 The grand prize is "A Night at the at 7 p.m. in the Herget Building. per person suggested donation Observatory" for you and 10 of Remember to dress for the For more information contact your best friends (a $250 value). weather, bring water to keep Dean Regas, Astronomer and the The balls will be dropped from the hydrated and don’t forget that other co-host of Star Gazers, (513) Stratus helicopter at the end of the sunscreen. If you have any 321-5186. daytime events (~5:30pm). You questions, please email Aashi [email protected] do not need to be present to win - Mital at [email protected] or http://www.cincinnatiobservator but then you miss the big event. Aaron Eiben at y.org/publicevents/scopeout- We are really excited about the [email protected]. astronomy-fair-7/ "Adventures in Science" area. We Until then, keep looking up! have added more science-related

2 activities including "" ([email protected]) for more Kellie Colarik experiments (acceleration ramp, details. Mike & Jody Crane pendulum, tennis ball drop, etc.); Alan Cummings AIAA "rocket" build & launch; UC Linda Johnson and David Physics Dept. demos; spectroscopy display; paper plate sundials; Demmert pinhole solar projector; and an Hallie Dovich "inertial guidance" demo. In Michael Fisher addition, Stratus Helicopters will Rob and Ann Flanagan have an R22 helicopter on display; Terry Flesch Tesla Motors will have one of their William and Deborah Froschauer "Model S" electric cars on site; and As always, ScopeOut requires a Barbara Gloeckner Blue Chip Energy will have a substantial number of dedicated solar energy display. All will be volunteers to make it run smoothly. Linda Huffenberger demonstrating engineering We have most positions covered, Phil Hughes principles as they relate to STEM but we still need 2-3 volunteers to Ann & William Jett education. We will still have help with parking control from Alexander P King activities for the younger kids such 11:30 am-2 pm. If you can help Chris and Julie Knueven as a scavenger hunt, art contest and with this important function, please Robert and Mary Kurimo face painting. email me at [email protected]. Gloria Lane Remember, in order to have your admission fee waived as a Tara Listermann volunteer for ScopeOut, you must Nick and Donna Mancini sign up in advance of the event. Melissa and Paul Marshall Grant and Susan Mussman

Denise Mustain Welcome Irene Osterbrock Tom and Adelaide Ottenjohn New & Renewing Tony Rein The popular "Telescope Re-home" returns this year. In addition to re- Members! Kim Salit homing a few telescopes (for a few David And Catherine Schildknecht dollars), the Telescope (Loan and) Jeff Schmidt Re-home table will also be selling Patricia & Allan Schreiber the Orion line of telescopes for the Reuben Shaffer Observatory Gift Shop. We are Joseph Sims also expanding the sales opportunities to the COC Michael Sitko membership by providing Jim and Janet Steiner consignment sales for anyone who Bob Stiens is interested in off-loading Bob Stothfang astronomical equipment that is George and Linda Strietmann unused, unwanted, redundant or Mary Sullivan and otherwise a solution in search of a Dr. Raymond Schultz problem. The table will be in the vendor tent area and will be Bill Bachelder Horst Guenther & manned during all of the primary Blair Whitney Barter Devorah Waesch ScopeOut hours (12:00-5:00). Slawomir Bucki Linda and Jim Weber Please contact Dave Bosse Mark & Vicki Plano Clark Michael and Adrian Zaretsky

3 deadline is October 15th at 5 Highlights of the August Monthly Friends of the pm. Observatory (FOTO) FOTO Meeting  Union Terminal High Steel

Tour: Saturday, October 25th By John Barnes Planning Meeting at noon (arrival at 11:45 am.). The August 11, 2014 FOTO By Michelle Gainey ($25 per person: Advanced Meeting, held at the COC, was payment required!) called to order by President The next FOTO Planning Meeting Reservation deadline: October Michelle Gainey at 7:31 PM. is scheduled for Thursday, 1st at 5 pm. September 25, 7 pm (note the time Keith Bookbinder announced that change) at the Observatory. The  New Vistas in Astronomy: he is going to the Okie-Tex Star planning meetings are open to all November 13. The Universe FOTO members. We encourage Party in September and wants to Through A Prism (Demitri your participation in the know if anyone would like to go Muna) December 11: Cosmic discussion of future FOTO with him. Sound and Cosmic Distance activities. (David Weinberg) Members FOTO Vice President Aashi Mital purchase their own tickets, announced that movie night, FOTO Upcoming Activities drive up (maybe carpool), etc. showing In the Shadow of the Moon, will be August 25 at 7:00 at the This lecture series meets monthly Observatory. Aashi also By Aashi Mital at the Perkins Observatory in mentioned a number of field trips coming up over the next few FOTO has a number of activities Deleware, OH on Thursday night months: a behind the scenes tour coming up. If you are unable to promptly at 8 pm and is geared of Union Terminal, a high steel make the monthly FOTO meetings towards an adult audience. It is tour of Union Terminal, a couple and would like more information considered to be a "mini-course" in of walking tours emphasizing the or to sign-up, the only way to do astronomy, in which OSU and history of Mt. Adams and Spring so would be to email Aashi Mital OWU professors discuss their Grove Cemetery, and a tour of at [email protected]. current research and any new Cincinnati Water Works. Keep in mind that you will findings in their areas of expertise. receive emails with more Tickets are $8 for each lecture. Dale Zoller, Chairperson of the information as the date of said Tickets for the entire series are ScopeOut 2014 Committee, event gets closer. Also, please be available at a discount. announced that volunteers are still mindful of the reservation They have a capacity of 80 needed for this year’s event deadlines. Once the deadlines guests. Tickets MUST be scheduled for Saturday, September have passed, you will be unable to purchased in advance: 740-363- 13. Those who have their 1257. volunteer assignments prior to attend. Do you have feedback or arrival at ScopeOut will have their recommendations for more field names included in a raffle for a  Mt. Adams Historical day-long test drive of a Tesla. The Walking Tour: Saturday, trips? Don’t hesitate to email Aashi main event runs from noon until October 4th at 1 p.m. Mital at [email protected]. 5:00. Door prizes will be awarded ($10/person) Reservation between 5:00 and 6:00. Dinner at deadline is October 3rd at 5 pm. 6:00 will be catered by Bella Luna. Did You Know…. Dave Bosse will be selling  Spring Grove Cemetery: The telescopes, both new and used, Observatory’s past and who’s The Planet Mercury has an oval and will accept some items to be who tour: Saturday, October orbit ranging from 28 to 43 million sold on consignment. 18th at 1 pm, Reservation miles from the Sun.

4 Ultimate Educators Expo Astro Evenings at the September 10, 2 - 6 pm Observatory Tri-State educators are invited to Thursdays, September 4, 11, 18, 25 October is almost here and we will the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Fridays, September 5, 19, 26 be treated to two eclipses. From Garden for the 2014 Ultimate 8:00 - 9:30 pm Cincinnati, we will have the Educator Expo. opportunity to observe a total A core program of the Observatory lunar eclipse in the western skies is our ongoing Astro Evenings as the sun rises on the morning of which take place most Thursdays October 8th. This is an event for and Fridays year-round. early risers as the eclipse starts at The evenings are all volunteer 4:16 am EDT with the faint staffed and include a short penumbra shadow overtaking the moon. Then at 5:15 am the umbra The event, presentation on ever-changing and shadow starts to redden the hosted by the Zoo in partnership fascinating topics followed by a moon’s disk. For the next with Greater Cincinnati guided stargaze through the oldest Environmental Educators (GCEE), telescope in the takes place at the Cincinnati Zoo’s (weather permitting). Harold C. Schott Education Center Also included is plenty of time on Wednesday, September 10 from for Q&A on any astro topic and a 2:00 - 6:00p. historical tour of the observatory, The Expo features 45-minute where you’ll not only see how the break-out sessions in which old telescopes works but also learn teachers will gain practical about the role that Cincinnati has information on great played in the birth of astronomy in environmental education oppor- Free for Observatory members! tunities. Over thirty-five

Image by Steve Rismiller environmental organizations will be there to share their educational Museums and Historic Sites 70 minutes the Moon goes through programs available to teachers and an ever deepening eclipse. Finely students. http://cincinnatizoo.org/events/ultima of Greater Cincinnati at 6:25 am the moon will be in total te-educator-expo/ eclipse becoming very dark red in color. The moon sets as the sun rises at 7:37 am. For Cincinnati FOTO: Field Trip Survey observers, we will see the partial eclipse and 10 minutes of total By Aashi Mital lunar eclipse in all. rd As many of you may have noticed, Then on October 23 we will see a partial solar eclipse. Be sure we are expanding the By Craig Niemi opportunities, such as field trips to have a safe and approved solar MHS is comprised of over 30 filter to look at this event. The first and group activities, available to participating sites across Greater “bite” out of the sun happens at the FOTO Membership. In Cincinnati. Each site offers a 5:48 pm EDT and continues until wanting to grow with this process, please take a moment to fill out the unique perspective on local history sunset. About 50% of the sun will following survey online: and culture through public be covered by the moon that https://www.surveymonkey.com programs, exhibits, lectures, and afternoon. I wish everyone good /s/N867Z8Z We’d love to hear tours. luck in October in observing these your feedback. www.historicgreatercincinnati.org eclipses.

5 Craig’s Corner Red Planet's Climate History Observe the Moon Night

By Craig Niemi, Executive Director Uncovered In Unique September 6, 8-10 pm

Well it took months to get here but Martian Meteorite International Observe the Moon the dog-days of summer finally Night (InOMN) is an annual event arrived-just in time for Labor Day that is dedicated to encouraging and the beginning of the school Was -- now a cold, dry place -- once a warm, wet planet that people to ‘look up’ and take notice year. of our nearest neighbor, the Moon. The fact that our little planet is sustained life? Research underway actually further away from the sun may one day answer those now than it is in winter- “reasons questions -- and perhaps even help for the seasons”-is one of many pave the way for future common misconceptions our staff colonization of the Red Planet. By and volunteer educators confront analyzing the chemical clues every day. You can prove it to locked inside an ancient Martian yourself on your next daytime meteorite known as Black Beauty, visit with an exploration of the scientists are revealing the story of Paul Nohr Sundial. The sundial’s Mars’ ancient, and sometimes curious looking figure-8, along startling, climate history. with the nearby Planet Walk, reveals much about our place in the solar system and the yearly From looking at the Moon with a rhythms of the planets. naked eye to using the most With the start of another school sensitive telescope, every year on year brings hundreds of requests the same day, people from around for school outreach programs and the world hold events and field trips to the Observatory, the activities that celebrate our Moon. Ultimate Educators Expo at the The Moon is a remarkable sight Zoo, our annual ScopeOut Fair, though our historic telescopes! the Great Outdoor Weekend, and Free, No Reservations Needed. more. 2014 attendance is on track for another 25,000+ year. Thank you to all our members New Star Gazers and donors who help make it possible for the Observatory to "First we learned that, about 4.5 serve the Greater Cincinnati billion years ago, water was more community with innovative, abundant on Mars, and now we've thought provoking programs and learned that something truly authentic experiences. It’s dramatically changed that," said thanks to Dean, Aaron, John Humayun, a professor of Ventre, John Barnes and all our geochemistry. "Now we can volunteers for all they do above conclude that the conditions that and beyond what is asked of them. we see today on Mars, this dry And a special thanks to Lyn Martian desert, must have Star Gazers airs locally on Marsteller who is stepping down persisted for at least the past 1.7 channels 14 and 48 and you can as the Observatory’s Development billion years. We know now that watch each month’s episodes on Coordinator. In both her official Mars has been dry for a very long our website: and unofficial roles she has done time." http://www.cincinnatiobservator much to advance this institution. http://www.sciencedaily.com/rel y.org/stargazer.html “Keep Our sincere thanks go out to her! eases/2014/08/140827131553.htm Looking Up!”

6 FOTO High Steel Tour FOTO's September 2014 Astrophotography

By Aashi Mital Meeting Workshop

We are returning to the Union By Dave McBride Third Thursdays Terminal on Saturday, October 25th February through November for The High Steel Tour. Come With the approaching autumnal and explore the steel structure of equinox on September 22rd and its the Union Terminal! The tour promise of a new season of starts at Noon, but we are required celestial adventures, we can look to arrive by 11:45 a.m. in front of forward to an early Harvest Moon the ticket counter. on the night of September 8-9, and The last day to sign-up is our upcoming FOTO programs October 1st by 5 pm. The tour is will inform and entertain you for $25 per person, however, the the remainder of 2014. completion of a release form and On September 8th at 7:30pm the payment is due to Aashi Mital on program committee will Next Session: Thursday, October 4th by 5 pm. feature Jeff Hutton with his September 25 Details on advanced payment program topic “More than a 7:00-9:30 pm and the return of the release form Telescope.” Sometime during will be given out via email to those 2008, Jeff and his wife Reda Free for Cincinnati Observatory signed up. Please keep in mind decided that it would be nice to members. Space is limited. that if the payment and form are have a large telescope to enjoy for 513-321-5186. not received by the deadline, you their retirement. Jeff had never enjoyed mirror will be unable to participate. grinding, even on a small scale, so FOTO Board Members After an audiovisual the choice was obvious as to presentation on its construction, whom he should approach to Terms expire Oct. 2014 we shall be climbing to the high make the mirror: Dick Wessling, Except as noted steel trusses that support one of one of the most skilled “glass- the largest half-dome rotundas in President: Michelle Gainey pushers” around. Jeff will tell us the world. The tour lasts about VP: Aashi Mital the story of how his telescope was two hours, ascends 300 steps and Secretary: John Barnes constructed around one of Dick’s has ladders in dimly lit areas. It is Treasurer: JoAnne Pedersen nearly perfect objective mirrors FOTO Rep: Frank Huss (exp Oct not handicap accessible. No and how it would later become a cameras (or photos) or personal 2016) living memorial to a friendship Trustees carried items are permitted on this that lasted forty-two years. John Blasing (exp. Oct 2015) tour. Sturdy shoes are required! Jerry Black will be the presenter Aaron Eiben (exp. Oct 2015) If you have any questions, on October 13th. Jerry is the Al Scheide comments or wish to sign-up, current Chair of the Ohio Chapter please email Aashi Mital at Dave McBride of the Mars Society. He will be [email protected] speaking about “The Search for

Life on Mars and Beyond.” Did You Know…. On November 10th our program Did You Know…. will feature Terry Flesch telling us Scientists have created a new category to describe small bodies about his private observatory – its orbiting among the planets. The Crab Nebula has a spinning design, construction and use. Terry’s non-technical presentation They’re called “Centaurs”, a neutron star at its core from a will help everyone relate to his combination of a comet and an supernova which happened in personal experience. asteroid. 1054 AD.

7 Mars had a substantial Free Stargaze Colliding Atmospheres: atmosphere that blanketed the planet, keeping Mars warm and At Lincoln Ridge Mars vs Comet sustaining liquid water on its Siding Spring surface. Today, only a wispy Saturday, September 6, 8:30 pm shroud of CO2 remains, and the

planet below is colder and drier August 12, 2014: On October 19, than any desert on Earth. Theories 2014, Comet Siding Spring will for this planetary catastrophe pass by Mars only 132,000 km center on erosion of the away--which would be like a atmosphere by solar wind. comet passing about 1/3 of the http://science.nasa.gov/science- distance between Earth and the news/science-at- Moon. /2014/12aug_marscomet/ The nucleus of the comet won't hit Mars, but there could be a

420 Independence Station Rd., different kind of collision. Stargazing at Stonelick Independence, KY "We hope to witness two atmospheres colliding," explains State Park Volunteers from Friends of the David Brain of the University of Saturdays – September 20 & 27th Observatory Center and the Colorado's Laboratory for

Midwestern Astronomers will Atmospheric and Space Physics help open your eyes to the wonder (LASP). "This is a once in a of the universe. You are welcome lifetime event! to bring your telescope and Everyone knows that planets binoculars. www.kentoncounty.org have atmospheres. Lesser known is that comets do, too. The atmosphere of a comet, called its Eyes of the Night "coma," is made of gas and dust that spew out of the sun-warmed Autumn Skies nucleus. The atmosphere of a typical comet is wider than Need help with your telescope? . Bring it for expert tips setting it up "It is possible," says Brain, "that and exploring the night sky. the atmosphere of the comet will Stargazing begins at dusk. Open to interact with the atmosphere of all ages. Mars. This could lead to some Stargazes are weather remarkable effects—including permitting. “Friend” the Stonelick Martian auroras." Lake Stargazers Facebook page for Mr. John Ruthven is offering The timing could scarcely be weather and schedule updates. signed, limited edition giclee' better. Just last year, NASA prints of his "Eyes of the Night" launched a spacecraft named which features the Observatory! MAVEN to study the upper Each signed 14"x 20" print is on atmosphere of Mars, and it will be Did You Know…. sale for $150. The total run will be arriving in Sept. 2014 barely a limited to 250 prints. Proceeds month before the comet. support the Observatory’s MAVEN is on a mission to At the center of a Black Hole is a programs. solve a longstanding mystery: conundrum called a Singularity. To order contact Craig Niemi at What happened to the atmosphere Singularities are beyond 513-321-5186 or of Mars? Billions of years ago, unbelievably tiny, but also [email protected] unimaginably heavy. 8 Five Finalist Sites Chosen UC Communiversity Orion Rocks! Pebble-Size Enrich Your Life With For Historic Comet Landing Quality Courses Particles May Jump-Start

If it works, Philae will spend at Planet Formation least two days -- perhaps up to : several months if its batteries can be recharged -- drilling into the comet, measuring its structure and chemical make-up, taking pictures, and searching for a link between the comet's ice deposits and the water in Earth's oceans. Some scientists theorize Earth was seeded with water and the building blocks of life by comets Sep 22 7 pm billions of years ago. The Search for Life on Other Worlds

Oct 15 7 pm Radio/optical composite of the Orion Stargazing 101 Molecular Cloud Complex showing

Oct 29 7 pm the OMC-2/3 star-forming filament. Behind the Scenes at the GBT data is shown in orange. Observatory Astronomers have discovered that All classes $22 per person (+ any filaments of star-forming gas near materials fees.) To register contact the Orion Nebula may be UC Communiversity at 513-556- brimming with pebble-size 6932 or particles -- planetary building www.uc.edu/ce/commu.html blocks 100 to 1,0. http://www.sciencedaily.com/rel "Unlocking these time capsules, eases/2014/08/140827111809.htm looking at the gas that come off Late Night Date Night them, the dust, and in particular the ice and the water they're made At the Observatory Amazon “Smiles” on the of give us great clues about the origin not only of the solar system Saturday, September 20 Observatory and the planets, but potentially 10:30 pm-12:00 am even life because we know comets also contain organic molecules -- Can’t sleep? Looking for a unique the building blocks of DNA and Saturday night out? Get a sneak preview of the next season’s RNA," said Mark McCaughrean, Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price senior scientific advisor in the planets and a month or two of your eligible purchases to European Space Agency's science ahead of everyone else. Cincinnati Observatory Center and robotic exploration Recommended for adults only. whenever you shop on AmazonSmile. directorate. Admission is $10 per person Next time you shop at Amazon simply http://www.astronomynow.com/ To make reservations please call start at news/n1408/27cometsites/#.VAa 513-321-5186 or go online! http://smile.amazon.com/ch/31- GMsJdVqA www.formstack.com 1665954

9 The Great Outdoor Weekend NASA's Spitzer Space Voyager Map Details Telescope Witnesses Neptune's Moon Triton Asteroid Smashup :

September 27 & 28

Would you believe that over one weekend you will have 125 outdoor recreation and nature activities to choose from around the greater Cincinnati region?? This artist's concept shows the You might climb way up in the immediate aftermath of a large NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave tree tops, or stargaze, or row on asteroid impact around NGC 2547- humanity its first [close-up] the Great River! You will ID8, a 35-million-year-old sun-like glimpse of Neptune and its moon have several chances to hike and star thought to be forming rocky Triton in the summer of 1989. Like see birds of prey up close. Maybe planets an old film, Voyager's historic you will learn how to grow your NASA's Spitzer Space footage of Triton has been own food or shoot a bow and Telescope has spotted an eruption "restored" and used to construct arrow! Every event is FREE! of dust around a young star, the best-ever global color map of that strange moon. The map, The Observatory will be open possibly the result of a smashup produced by Paul Schenk, a Saturday from 7-10 pm and between large asteroids. This type scientist at the Lunar and Sunday 1-10 pm for tours, Q&A of collision can eventually lead to Planetary Institute in Houston, has and stargazing. the formation of planets. also been used to make a movie www.cincygreatoutdoorweekend.org Rocky planets begin life as recreating that historic Voyager dusty material circling around young stars. The material clumps encounter, which took place 25 House of Representatives together to form asteroids that ram years ago, on August 25, 1989. into each other. Although the ww.astronomynow.com/news/n1 asteroids often are destroyed, 408/24triton/#.VAaDhMJdVqA Passes Bill Permanently some grow over time and Reinstating IRA Charitable transform into proto-planets. After Meet Me Outdoors about 100 million years, the objects

Rollover mature into full-grown, terrestrial planets. Our moon is thought to

have formed from a giant impact between proto-Earth and a Mars- The U.S. House of Representatives size object. passed H.R. 4719, legislation that http://www.sciencedaily.com/rel would permanently reinstate three eases/2014/08/140828170120.htm charitable giving tax incentives, among them the IRA Charitable

Rollover provision! Check with Did You Know…. Looking for one site to find this your investment professional on summer’s best outdoor recreation how it can lower your tax liability Ganymede is made mostly of events? while supporting the water ice. http://meetmeoutdoors.com Observatory’s mission. 10 A recent paper in Eos details just History of the Observatory ExoMars Hunting: Where how difficult it is to choose where to put down a rover, with September 14 & 28th Should The European Rover reference to the upcoming Drop in anytime between 1-4 pm European ExoMars mission that Land? will launch in 2018. http://www.universetoday.com/ 114302/exomars-hunting-where- should-the-european-rover- land/#more-114302

New Galactic Supercluster

An artist’s conception of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover, Map Shows Milky Way's scheduled to launch in 2018. Credit: ESA 'Heavenly' Home

$5 per person suggested donation. Free for members. Group tours by Picking a landing site on Mars is a appointment. complex process. There’s the need to balance scientific return with the capabilities of whatever 55142 is the Kroger vehicle you’re sending out there. And given each mission costs Community Rewards millions (sometimes billions) of dollars — and you only get one Number for the Observatory shot at landing — you can bet mission planners are extra- Scientists have created the first map of cautious about choosing the right a colossal supercluster of galaxies location. known as Laniakea, the home of Earth's Milky Way galaxy and many other. This computer simulation, a still from a Nature journal video, depicts the giant supercluster, with the Milky Way's location shown as a After a quick and easy sign up red dot. online, every time you swipe your Kroger Plus Card a donation goes A new cosmic map is giving to support the Observatory’s scientists an unprecedented look at mission. No cost to you; no loss of the boundaries for the giant fuel points. supercluster that is home to https://www.kroger.com/accoun Earth's own Milky Way galaxy t/create and many others. Scientists even Curiosity snaps selfie at Kimberley waypoint with towering Mount Sharp have a name for the colossal Did You Know…. backdrop on April 27, 2014 (Sol 613). galactic group: Laniakea, Inset shows MAHLI camera image of Hawaiian for "immeasurable heaven." The Moon is receding from the rovers mini-drill test operation on April 29, 2014 (Sol 615) into http://www.space.com/27016- Earth at the rate of 1.5 inches per “Windjama” rock target at galaxy-supercluster-laniakea- year Mount Remarkable butte. milky-way-home.html 11