The Springfield Telescope Makers & Hartness House Inn Present
2011 Hartness House Workshop:
Meteors, Meteorites, and Minor Planets
We are pleased to offer a pre-Stellafane workshop, cosponsored by Dudley Observatory, Thursday, July 28th, at the historic Hartness House Inn and Porter-Hartness Museum of Telescope Making located in Springfield, Vermont. Proceeds will support the Hartness-Porter Museum of Telescope Making, which is run by volunteers from the Springfield Telescope Makers. While associated with the Stellafane Convention, this is a separate event and separate registration and fees apply.
Please use the registration form on the first page of this Registration PDF to register for this event. John Briggs is organizing the program, and questions can be directed to him at john.w.briggs@gmail.com, phone 970-343-0618. Dan Lorraine of Seagrave Memorial Observatory is the workshop registrar, dwlorraine@aol.com.
In addition to the evening lecture by Dr. Jane Luu, workshop presenters include: · Wayne Zuhl · Richard Sanderson · Michael D. Reynolds · Pete Peterson & John W. Briggs · Scott Stuart · Paul P. Sipiera · Chris Peterson.
Schedule and Preliminary Agenda
Hartness House Inn, 30 Orchard Street, Springfield, Vermont, 05156; phone 802-885-2115
Note that registration includes coffee breaks and a buffet luncheon at Hartness House. Registration for the evening meal and after-dinner presentation is separate.
| 8:00 - 8:55 | Coffee and Registration | |
| 8:55 - 9:00 | John W. Briggs | Introduction |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Wayne Zuhl | Words of Welcome, with an Account of Stellafane's Prized Meteorite |
| 9:15 - 10:15 | Richard Sanderson | The Night of Raining Fire: The 1833 Leonid Meteor Storm |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Prof. Mike D. Reynolds | The Science of Meteorites |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Pete Peterson & John W. Briggs |
A Demonstration of Astrometrica Shareware for CCD-based Solar System astrometry |
| 11:45 - 12:45 | Lunch | Concurrent with lunch, the Porter-Hartness Museum of Telescope Making will be open with curator Bert Willard |
| 12:45 - 1:45 | Dr. J. Scott Stuart | Discovering Near-Earth Asteroids at MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| 1:45 - 2:45 | Professor Paul P. Sipiera | Hot Rocks on Blue Ice: Searching for Antarctic Meteorites |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Chris L. Peterson | Building a Network for All-Sky Video Recording of Meteors |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Panel Discussion | |
| 5:00 - 6:15 | Cocktails | |
Please see the
Workshop Program & Abstracts PDF Document for more information
(Talk abstracts and speaker bios).
Please see the Registration PDF Document for to register.
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