Astronomy Students Association

Archive

January 23, 2013

-Mentioned upcoming events, such as the Gallindo Elementary School event on Thursday January 24, 2013, Explore UT on Saturday March 2, 2013, and Prospective Students Day sometime in April
-James Diekmann presented his research on Active Galactic Nuclei
-Nicole called for volunteers for selling donuts on Friday mornings
-Sarah Saltwick spoke about needing consultants for their dance and acting project called "We Are StarStuff"

January 30, 2013

-Mentioned events coming up, including the star party at Wiley Middle School on Saturday, February 9, an event at Zilcher Park that SPS is organizing on Saturday, February 16, and an event as SXSW
-Participated in an RLM scavenger hunt, with liquid nitrogen ice cream on the roof

February 6, 2013

-We watched a TED talk about how we can avoid being hit by near earth asteroids
-Nicole talked about how we are finding very young galaxies with radio telescopes
-Miquela talked about near earth asteroids! There is one passing very close to Earth on valentines day (but will not hit us)
-Alex talked about the James Webb Space Telelscope, and it's many state of the art mirrors. The JWST is going to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope
-Harrison talked about the suprising possible number of extrasolar planets being discovered

February 13, 2013

-Harrison made a powerpoint to outline events. You can find it here
-The ASA game night commenced

February 20, 2013

-Greg Shields talked about how galaxies can capture black holes
-Britney Schmidt gave an amazing talk about Europa

March 20, 2013

-Rodolpho Santana talked about Gamma Ray Bursts!
-Announced details about the camping trip, Earth hour, prospective students day, and the T-Shirt design contest

March 27, 2013

-Members participated in a Jeopardy game!