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Open House 2009 Family Lectures

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	Auditorium C-214	Room C-221
11.30am	The 2008 Solar Eclipse Expedition Shadia Habbal Why and how a handful of IfA astronomers travelled to the Gobi desert in China in search of iron in the solar corona.	------
12.15pm	Galileo Bob Joseph This year we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's use of the telescope for astronomy. Was he that important?	Hits and Misses David Tholen The last few months saw the first occasion in which a meteorite impact was successfully predicted in advance, as well as a near-miss that might have been another Tunguska.
1.00pm	The Moth in the Window John Johnson How a new instrument on Mauna Kea that is sensitive enough to detect a moth passing in front of a lighted window a thousand miles away can measure the size of a planet orbiting a distant star.	Sacred Mountains and Telescopes Paul Coleman IfA astronomer and Native Hawaiian Coleman explains how scientists and cultural practitioners need not come into conflict about Mauna Kea.
1.45pm	The Floodgates Open Ken Chambers The start of science from the Pan-STARRS Sky Surveys.	The Antikythera Mechanism Gareth Wynn-Williams Recent X-ray analysis of an encrusted piece of bronze from a 2000-year-old Greek shipwreck show it to be an astronomical computing device of astonishing complexity.
2.30pm	The Story of O Lisa Kewley How studying the spectra of galaxies in the distant Universe has revealed the origin of the oxygen atoms we breathe every day.	The Faulkes Telescope JD Armstrong Hawaii's schoolchildren now have access to the world's largest telescope for education, situated on Haleakala.
3.15pm	Stormy Weather in Space Ilia Roussev IfA scientists are trying to understand how dramatic explosions in the Sun's atmosphere affect the interplanetary wind that constantly blows past Earth.	Remote Observing for Everybody Ken Archer A live demonstration of how teachers, students and amateur astronomers can make real time observations on remote telescopes using a web browser.