Schedule

Mt. Tamalpais State Park
Explore the Wonders of the Universe

2013 ASTRONOMY PROGRAMS
our 25th season on the mountain

April 13 8:30pm	Dr. Robert A. Rohde, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature “Understanding the Climate Change of the Last 250 Years” The Earth is getting warmer. Come review the evidence that Earth’s climate has been changing, and understand the likely connection to the greenhouse gases generated by mankind’s industrial activities.
May 11 8:30pm	Dr. Jim Luebke, Deep Space Industries "Deep Space Industries” Deep Space Industries is a new company dedicated to exploring, characterizing, retrieving, and processing Near-Earth asteroids for fuel, building materials, and planetary defense.
June 15 8:30pm	Dr. Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy “Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe” The expansion rate of the Universe is speeding up with time, rather than slowing down due to gravity as expected. The origin of the repulsive "dark energy" may be the biggest unsolved mystery in all of physics.
July 13 8:30pm	Dr. Natalie Batalha, NASA-Ames Research Center “Beyond the Cradle: Kepler's Search for New Worlds” NASA's Kepler spacecraft, designed to find Earth-like planets orbiting stars in our Milky Way, has been in operation since 2009. What exciting results have been found to date?
August 10 8:30pm	Dr. Ken Croswell, Astromomer and auther “The Lives of Stars” The stars that speckle the sky have long fascinated humanity, but only in the past century have astronomers figured out how stars are born, live, and die and which stars might have planets with intelligent life.
Sept 7 7:30pm	Dr. Pascal Lee, Mars Institute “From Earth to Mars” The first human mission to Mars will be humanity’s greatest undertaking in space exploration in the 21st century. As with all expeditions, its success will depend on planning and first steps towards the journey are already under way.
Oct 12 7:00pm	Dr. Frank Marchis, SETI Institute "Near Earth Asteroids: Friends or Foes?” The close flyby of the 30m asteroid 2012DA14 on Feb 15 and the Chebalkul Meteor which exploded over Russia the same day, has increased awareness of the smaller objects in our solar system and their potential impact with Earth.

Immediately following each month's lecture, the audience is invited to remain in the Mountain Theater for a brief Night Sky Tour by the Urban Astronomer, highlighting the prominent constellations, stars and planets visible in the night time sky, before enjoying the observing session (starparty) conducted by the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers in the Rock Springs parking lot.

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For 2011 schedule click here.

For 2010 schedule click here.

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