Educational Events

Our meeting will be held November 30, 7:00–9:00 pm, in room 103 at the Greenbelt Community Center. Our speaker this month is Kristen Weaver, the deputy coordinator for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Observer project, which aims to extend the long-standing citizen-science and science-education program GLOBE to non-school-based audiences.  While… Read More »Monthly Meeting

Our February meeting will be on February 29. We meet at 7:00 pm for general discussion, and the presentation begins at 7:30 pm. Our speaker for this month is Ramin Lolachi, PhD, who will be discussing the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. Ramin is an assistant research scientist working for the University of Maryland,… Read More »Monthly Meeting

Our March meeting will be held on Thursday, March 28. We meet at 7:00 pm for general discussion, and the presentation begins at 7:30 pm. The presenter for this month is Corinne Carter, who will be giving a talk entitled "From Ada Lovelace to Grace Hopper: Pioneering Women of Information Technology" in honor of Women's… Read More »Monthly Meeting

Our April meeting will be held on Thursday, April 25. We meet at 7:00 pm for general discussion, and the presentation begins at 7:30 pm. We will meet this month to share stories and pictures of our experiences of the solar eclipse. While about 225 people gathered at the Greenbelt Observatory to watch the partial… Read More »Monthly Meeting

The Astronomical Society of Greenbelt will hold its May meeting on Thursday, May 30, at the Greenbelt Community Center. The speaker will be Agnes Conaty, who will give a presentation entitled "Citizen Science and the GLOBE Program."  We meet at 7:00 pm for general discussion, and the presentation begins at 7:30 pm.  The presentation is… Read More »Monthly Meeting

For our Annual Summer Film Festival, the Astronomical Society of Greenbelt will present Woman in Motion, the story of how Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols became a spokesperson for NASA and recruited a new generation of diverse, aspiring astronauts. The showing will be Thursday, June 27, at 7:00 pm in Room 114 of the Greenbelt… Read More »Monthly Meeting

Green Bank 100-Meter Radio TelescopePhoto credit: Kevin A. Wilson The speaker for our July meeting will be Dr. Patrick A. Taylor of the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. He will be speaking on the topic of planetary radar astronomy. The meeting will be on July 25 at the Greenbelt Community Center. We gather for… Read More »Monthly Meeting

The Astronomical Society of Greenbelt will meet at 7:30 pm on Thursday, October 31, in Room 114 of the Greenbelt Community Center. ASG member Sue Bassett will speak on “The Spooky Origins of Hubble Class Space Telescopes.” The meeting is free and open to the public. We meet for casual conversation at 7:00 pm, and… Read More »Monthly Meeting