Wycombe Astronomy Society (WAS)
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Wed 18 Nov
|Woodrow High House
Dr (L) Mike Leggatt FRAS FBIS - Pluto and the outer solar system
Time & Location
18 Nov 2015, 20:00
Woodrow High House, Woodrow High House, Woodrow, Amersham HP7 0QG, UK
About the Event
Wednesday 18th November at Woodrow High House Sports Hall.
This Lecture details the discovery of Pluto and Charon.
Dr Mike Leggett discusses Pluto: planet or dwarf planet?
He will cover -Neptunian Objects. Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. Kuiper Belt Objects. Plutinos. Cubewanos plus the New Horizons mission to Pluto, Charon and the Kuiper Belt. Oort Cloud. Comets. The boundary of the Solar System. Pioneer & Voyager's Interstellar Mission.
A Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Dr Mike Leggett is also a member of the British Astronomical Association, the Planetary Society and the Society for the History of Astronomy (SHA). As a participant in the SHA Survey of the Astronomical History of the UK, he is currently the coordinator for Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland. As a founder member of the South Lincolnshire Astronomical and Geophysical Society in 1976, he began to present astronomy talks for his local…