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Amateur rocketry to be featured at astronomy club meeting

Posted at 3:55 pm October 15, 2014
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In advance of the October Sky Festival, the ORION astronomy club presents Nicholas “Sterling” Edmunds III, a notable figure in amateur rocketry, who’ll speak on tracking and real time telemetry and data logging in rocketry, as well as on designing rockets with “Rocksim.” He will feature the Phoenix XL Rocket.

Come to the Grove Theater at 123 Randolph Road in Oak Ridge on Wednesday October 15, at 7 p.m., a press release said. (See http://orionastronomy.wordpress.com for more information.) [Read more…]

Filed Under: Clubs, Community, Front Page News Tagged With: amateur rocketry, Grove Theater, Nicholas "Sterling" Edmunds III, October Sky Festival, ORION, ORION astronomy club, rocketry

Physics professor to give sun-Earth astronomy talk at Grove on Wednesday

Posted at 11:48 am April 13, 2014
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High Places Community Church

The Grove Theater at High Places Community Church is pictured above.

An adjunct physics professor in east Tennessee will give a basic astronomy talk in Oak Ridge on Wednesday that focuses on “Selected Topics on the Sun-Earth Connection.”

John C. Mannone will give his talk to the ORION astronomy club at the Grove Theater at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

“Emphasis will be placed on the role of magnetic fields in the formation of our sun, the nature of sunspots, and their role in solar and terrestrial weather,” a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News Tagged With: astronomy, David E. Fields, Earth, Grove Theater, John C. Mannone, ORION, sun, Tamke-Allan Observatory, TAO

First Oak Ridge nature walk Saturday

Posted at 1:01 am February 21, 2013
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The Oak Ridge Environmental Research Park’s first spring nature walk of 2013 will focus on studies of the American woodcock and winter astronomy on Saturday, Feb. 23.

The walk from 5:30-9 p.m. will include opportunities to view demonstrations of the American woodcock’s elaborate flight displays. Also, a trained falconer from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will have two different hawks on hand for participants to learn about.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Recreation, Science, Top Stories Tagged With: astronomy, hawks, nature walk, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Environmental Research Park, ORION, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Tracy Clem, woodcock

Professor lectures on asteroid spacecraft Wednesday in Oak Ridge

Posted at 9:40 am July 30, 2012
By John Huotari 3 Comments

Harry “Hap” McSween, a professor of planetary geoscience at the University of Tennessee, will discuss discoveries made by the Dawn spacecraft orbiting Vesta, the second most massive asteroid, during a Wednesday lecture in Oak Ridge.

McSween is a geologist and distinguished professor who has served as head of UT’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and as former interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Education Tagged With: asteroid, Dawn, Harry "Hap" McSween, ORION, spacecraft, Vesta

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