Our guest speaker this month is Dr. John E. Moores, Associate Professor at the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science at York University. Dr. Moores will be speaking to us about his book, Daydreaming in the Solar System, taking a journey across the solar system and exploring what it would be like for mankind to experience each of our planetary neighbours.
Following Dr. Moores’ presentation, there will be door prizes and a telescope raffle, followed by our annual Christmas Social, where club members and attendees enjoy coffee and snacks and engage in fun conversation and comradery for the rest of the evening.
Copies of Dr. Moores’ book will be available for $40 (tax included).
We invite those attending to bring some snacks for all to share, as well as a small donation for Hamilton Food Share.
The meeting takes place in the auditorium of St. Matthews-on-the-Plains Anglican Church, 126 Plains Road East, Burlington Ontario. The event will begin promptly at 7:30 PM. This month is an in-person event only, there will be no Zoom broadcast.
Daydreaming in the Solar System: Exploring the Planets with our Five Senses – Our ancestors experienced the five classical planets of our solar system only as points of light in the night sky that appeared to wander amongst the fixed stars. Today, we know these places (and even a few more that our ancestors did not) as worlds in their own right through the data returned from our robotic explorers over the past 62 years. How would those planetary environments appeal to our five senses if we were to visit them in person? In this talk, I will draw on the research and storytelling from my book, Daydreaming in the Solar System, to help us tour the solar system and understand what it would be like to see, hear, touch, smell and even taste immersed in the environments of our planetary neighbors. Through this journey, we will obtain a keener understanding of our universe at a human scale that will deepen our appreciation for our own home, the Earth.
Dr. Moores is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science at York University. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, a recipient of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute’s McCurdy Award and served as the Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency from 2022-2024. John holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Planetary Science. An author on over 100 articles in planetary science, John has also been a member of five NASA and ESA-led space mission teams.
Webpage:
Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049290/daydreaming-in-the-solar-system/
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.ca/Daydreaming-Solar-System-Adventures-Exploration/dp/0262049295
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