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| Pluto’s Amazing Story |
| Speaker: Kelly Beatty |
| Thursday, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:00 PM |
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| This month’s speaker will be Kelly Beatty, a Sky and Telescope Senior Editor and ATMoB member since 2004. His talk, “Pluto’s Amazing Story,” will bring us up to date on discoveries made by the New Horizons missions.
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto after a 9Ѕ-year-flight. But really this historic encounter has been 85 years in the making, ever since 24-year-old Clyde Tombaugh discovered this enigmatic body at the edge of our planetary system. Today we realize that Pluto is among the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt, even though initially it was believed to be a body perhaps as massive as Earth. Kelly traces the history of Pluto — from predictions of its existence to the discovery of its moons to its “demotion” to dwarf-planet status. He then details what New Horizons has revealed about Pluto and Charon — truly the “odd couple” of our solar system. “Pluto’s Amazing History” will be of particular interest not only to astronomy enthusiasts but to the public in general. ATMoB members are encouraged to being family and friends.
Speaker Bio
Kelly Beatty, an S&T Senior Editor, writes many of the feature articles and news items found in Sky & Telescope and on this website. He joined the staff of Sky Publishing in 1974 and served as the editor of Night Sky, a magazine for beginning stargaz
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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