When
7 p.m., Feb. 16, 2010
Where
Kuiper Space Sciences 308
The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Fifty years of Excellence in Research, Education, and Discovery: 1960-2010
Dr. William K. Hartmann, UA/LPL alumnus and Senior Research Scientist at Tucson's Planetary Science Institute, is the scheduled speaker. The title of his talk is "Early days at the Lunar and Planetary Lab...and on Mars."
Bill will talk about the early days and working with Gerard Kuiper just after the establishment of LPL. This period, in the 1960s, was before the Planetary Sciences Department had been invented, and back when graduate students actually trekked across the street to the Science Library in order to find important journal articles printed on paper! Bill will review the roots of UA planetary science: discovering the Orientale impact basin on the moon, tracking Soviet development of the theory of planetary accretion, analyzing the first closeup photos of lunar landscapes and craters on Mars, working with Gene Shoemaker and the newly-formed U.S.G.S. "astrogeology branch" in Flagstaff, and the developing crater-dating and the giant impact theory theory of lunar origin.
Information about Dr. Hartmann is available here.
Fifty years of Excellence in Research, Education, and Discovery: 1960-2010
Dr. William K. Hartmann, UA/LPL alumnus and Senior Research Scientist at Tucson's Planetary Science Institute, is the scheduled speaker. The title of his talk is "Early days at the Lunar and Planetary Lab...and on Mars."
Bill will talk about the early days and working with Gerard Kuiper just after the establishment of LPL. This period, in the 1960s, was before the Planetary Sciences Department had been invented, and back when graduate students actually trekked across the street to the Science Library in order to find important journal articles printed on paper! Bill will review the roots of UA planetary science: discovering the Orientale impact basin on the moon, tracking Soviet development of the theory of planetary accretion, analyzing the first closeup photos of lunar landscapes and craters on Mars, working with Gene Shoemaker and the newly-formed U.S.G.S. "astrogeology branch" in Flagstaff, and the developing crater-dating and the giant impact theory theory of lunar origin.
Information about Dr. Hartmann is available here.
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