LPL Newsletter: July 2018

Friday, June 29, 2018

Three times in human history, an asteroid that later hit Earth has been discovered with a telescope. Rich Kowalski of LPL’s Catalina Sky Survey discovered all three of those asteroids. The latest discovery occurred in June, and you can read about it in this newsletter.

Meanwhile, LPL has continually sought to provide quality education and to come up with innovative methods of conveying scientific knowledge. A project co-led by LPL Associate Professor of Practice Steve Kortenkamp seeks to present scientific information, particularly planetary and astronomical data, in ways that visually-impaired students can grasp (literally, in some cases).

We have some exciting events coming up, too, from our annual Summer Science Saturday for the public, to the launch of the Parker Solar Probe (LPL Professor Joe Giacalone is a Co-Investigator); and, as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approaches the asteroid Bennu, mission PI Professor Dante Lauretta gets closer to his goal of obtaining an asteroid sample and returning it to Earth.

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Timothy D. Swindle, Ph.D.
Director and Department Head