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Last Update: 3-30-2008
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CCAS E-News email bulletins are
issued occasionally (sometimes weekly and sometimes daily if something unusual
or exciting is happening) to a long (private) list of email recipients around
San Luis Obispo County, California and the U.S. These bulletins provide
information about CCAS operations, meetings, star parties, presentations, public
science education programs and other events occurring around SLO County and
state, as well as information about what is happening on Earth and above Earth
in astronomy and space exploration.
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E-News
Archive
03-07-2008, 9:50 AM
CCAS Call to Arms! Potential impact on dark SLO County night
skies. Development of oil fields in the Carrizo Plains and a
large solar energy farm near Carrisa Plains. |
03-07-2008, 8:00 AM
Alt-Azimuth Telescope Development Project and Workshop on March
14-16, 2008 at Cal Poly. |
02-21-2008, 7:41 PM
Lunar eclipse viewing event results; Feb. 28th CCAS Meeting
speaker John Lindsey; March 1st SPACE show at the PG&E
Community Center; Supernova expert Dr. Alex Filippenko to
speak at the CCAS Sept. 27th. |
02-06-2008, 5:06 PM
Cuesta College lunar eclipse viewing evening Feb. 20th; Feb.
28th CCAS meeting speaker John Lindsey; Falling satellite to plunge
to Earth; Monster observatories in our future |
02-05-2008, 7:59 PM
CCAS Santa Margarita Lake KOA Star Party Feb. 9th; STEM
Showcase date changed to May 10th; National Geographic
announces summer Student Expeditions; Space Shuttle Atlantis
STS-122 launch Feb. 7th; NASA's 2009 Budget takes major hits;
NSF's 2009 Budget Request; New on-line 3D Saturn viewer;
Asteroid 2007 TU24 zooms past Earth; New storm on Jupiter;
50th anniversary of Explorer 1 launch; Dean Kamen's new bionic
robotic arm; Large Hadron Collider; Surprises from
Mercury; Not-so-rare Earth? more news |
01-26-2008, 9:56 AM
News: Asteroid flyby of Earth; Jupiter storm; MER
Opportunity panorama image of Victoria Crater; Hubble overhaul
mission; Launch of GLAST; Large Hadron Collider; STEM
Education Symposium in San Diego; and more. |
01-16-2008, 7:38 PM
News: First close-up images of Mercury in 33 years; 2008
politics and impact on STEM; National Science Board's Science &
Engineering Indicators 2008; Earth's climate 2nd warmest in
100 years; podcasts, images and more. |
01-13-2008, 12:48 PM
Jan. 19th "Big Bang" presentations at Cuesta College; Lots of
Astro News, including MESSENGER flyby of Mercury on Jan. 14th. |
01-05-2008, 12:26 PM
Jan. 19th "Big Bang" presentations at Cuesta College; STAR
Conference June 19-22; STEM Showcase March 1st; Cal Poly Open House
April 17-20; Cal Poly music Festival April 18-20; JPL Open House May
3-4; RTMC Astro Expo May 23-26; Astro News - Mars asteroid impact;
Science funding reduction; book reviews; podcasts; Cassini
spacecraft photo contest results; S&T Sky Highlights for 2008; IAAS
Stargazing Newsletter for January; Dusty disk around new star;
Reverse-direction jets from star; New Solar Cycle 24. |
01-01-2008, 5:32 PM
See Useful Links - Astronomical & Space Exploration
Images for a comprehensive list of links to stunning astronomy
and space flight images. |
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12-31-2007, 9:46 PM
Two new support services for users of CCAS information and email
bulletins, E-News Bulletin Archive and Personal Contact &
Biographical Information page accessed from Useful Links. |
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12-31-2007, 12:58 PM
Updated CCAS website; January 19th CCAS/DI free public
presentations at Cuesta College SLO Campus by Ray Weymann and Jodi
Christiansen about the Big Bang; Nominations for outstanding
elementary STEM teachers for the Presidential Awards for Excellence
in Science & Math Teaching.
Astro News: Sunspot 978; Comet 8P/Tuttle; Presidential
candidates' positions on space exploration; book reviews; SkyMap map
& sky calendar for January 2008; Podcast - Globular Clusters; Best
Space Discoveries of 2007; International Robotic Rivalry; JPL
articles, videos and podcasts; S&T 2007 The Year that Was; S&T sky
highlights for 2008; Understanding our neighborhood in the universe;
Subaru reveals framework of galaxies 11 billion years old; Flare on
fast rotating star; Five planets orbiting 55 Cancri; New images from
Saturn and Mars. |
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12-28-2007, 08:08 PM
Notice of January 19th public meeting / presentation. The
CCAS and SLO's Discovery Institute for the Advancement of Science
and Technology Education team together for presentations about the
Big Bang by professional astronomer Dr. Ray Weymann and Cal Poly
Physics Professor Jodi Christiansen. |
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