Life on other Worlds – 27th September 2001
Dr. Stuart Clark, who is Assistant Editor of Astronomy Now, and who also works part-time for the European Space Agency, gave a talk entitled “Life …
Meetings Reports
We meet every month, usually on the fourth Thursday of the month, (the December meeting will generally be on the third Thursday). Meetings start no earlier than 7:30pm and end before 10:00pm. Here you’ll find brief reports of many of our meetings. In these we try to include any web links or other pointers to further information that were provided by the speaker at the meeting. If you were at one of our meetings and would like to correct or expand the report relating to it then please email our webmaster.
Transits – 26th July 2001
Greg Smye-Rumsby gave an entertaining talk about the forthcoming transits of Mercury and Venus, and Tony Sizer talked about the relative sizes and densities of …
Infra-red Astronomy – 28th June 2001
Dr. Helen Walker, who has worked for many years on the ISO project, gave a talk entitled “Infra-red astronomy“ in which she explained that IR …
Antarctic Astronomy – 24th May 2001
Dr. Jonathan Shanklin gave a wide-ranging talk entitled “An Astronomer in Antarctica“ in which he described a visit to Antarctica, with reference to the many …
Mars and Meteorites – 26th April 2001
Dr. Monica Grady gave us a very interesting talk entitled “Mars, meteorites and the search for life“ in which she explained why she was sure …
Mars – 22nd March 2001
Geoff Epps stepped into the limelight at rather short notice, and gave a talk entitled “The early history and subsequent evolution of the planet Mars“ …