Our November speaker, Dr. Jeffery Hollingsworth, has had to cancel his talk due to unforeseen circumstances, and hopes to reschedule for the spring. Stay tuned for a new agenda for Friday’s General Meeting.

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The featured speaker at our October General Meeting will be SVAS President Ross Gorman!

“Easter Island Eclipse”

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:00 PM
at Sacramento City College
Mohr Hall Room 3
3835 Freeport Boulevard,
Sacramento, CA

Ross will present a slideshow of his adventure to Easter Island to see the total eclipse of the Sun last July.

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 Annual Members-only Big Bash!!

 

Mark your calendar, collimate that scope and get something to throw on the grill! Star-BQ is almost here. Members may bring guests.

 

 

Friday, August 6:

Call to reserve a spot if you wish to camp overnight Friday and/or Saturday

Saturday, August 7:

Raffle & Barbecue, Solar Observing & Other events

Sunday, August 8:

Get some sleep after staying up all night, clean-up party

 

 

Contact Bob Lea, Walt Heiges, or Forrest Lockhart

(See Contact Page for their info)

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 Dr. Kevin Grazier will be the featured speaker at the June General Meeting on Friday, June 18.

 “Dawn: Ion Engines And Icy Asteroids.”

 

Dawn’s goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system’s earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formations. Ceres and Vesta reside in the extensive zone between Mars and Jupiter together with many other smaller bodies, called the asteroid belt. Each has followed a very different evolutionary path constrained by the diversity of processes that operated during the first few million years of solar system evolution.

 Visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/ to learn more about Dawn.

Dr. Kevin Grazier  

Friday, June 18, 2010 8:00 PM

at Sacramento City College

3835 Freeport Boulevard,

Sacramento, CA

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May General Meeting Speaker: Larry HarrisonWow! Have you ever seen meteorites like that? Come check it out and learn more about meteorites than you ever hoped to know from Larry Harrison, this month’s General Meeting Speaker. Harrison has an enviable collection of meteorites to show and will explain how different meteorites form, talk about their differing compositions and tell you how to know if that burnt looking rock you found could be a meteorite.

Friday, May 21 @ 8:00 pm

Sacramento City College (SCC), in Mohr Hall Room 3

SCC is located at 3835 Freeport Boulevard, Sacramento, CA

SVAS general meetings are open to the public and are held on the third Friday of each month. See Meetings page for map & directions.

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