Session details: Saturday, 2010-04-03 08:00:00
Semi-formal 3-course buffet dinner with guest speaker Dr Charles Lineweaver and the awarding of the Berenice Page Medal. Payment for beverages is on a consumption basis (i.e. pay as you drink).
Presenter(s): Dr. Peter Skilton & John Cleverdon Affiliation(s): MPAS (Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society) Session details: Sunday, 2024-03-31 03:00:00, STAR Abstract In the mid-1800’s, the largest known iron meteorite in the world was encountered by chance by European settlers south east of Melbourne in the township of Cranbourne, where it had rested for about a century….
Presenter(s): Dr Merrill Findlay Affiliation(s): Big Skies Collaboration, and Research Fellow (Hon), Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra Session details: Sunday, 2020-04-12 06:00:00, SUN Abstract At the 2018 NACAA I spoke about our Big Skies Collaboration which seeks to catalyze new opportunities for communities in southeastern Australia's rural Inland and introduced NACAA…
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Presenter(s): Ian Sullivan Affiliation(s): ASV, MPAS Session details: Sunday, 2020-04-12 04:30:00, STAR Abstract The first planet not easily visible to the naked eye was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, a German who lived in England and became world famous. He made his own instruments and was granted a pension by King George III. He…