Jupiter lecture at Foothill April 14

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From: Lori Lambertson (loril@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 30 2004 - 14:07:26 PST 

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:07:26 -0800
From: Lori Lambertson <loril@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Jupiter lecture at Foothill April 14

>>Dear Pinhole Friends,
Here is a free lecture in which you may be interested:

>>
>>NASA's Claudia Alexander
>>To Give Public Lecture on
>>Jupiter and Its Strange Satellites
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2004,
>>at 7 pm, Dr. Claudia Alexander, of
>>NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will
>>give a non-technical, illustrated talk entitled:
>>"A Galileo Wrap-up: What We Have Learned
>>about Giant Jupiter and its Marvelous Moons"
>>in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College,
>>El Monte Road and Freeway 280,
>>in Los Altos Hills.
>>
>>The talk, part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy
>>Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.
>>Parking on campus costs $2.
>>
>>Call the series hot-line at 650-949-7888 for
>>more information.
>>
>>Dr. Alexander served as the Project Manager
>>of the Galileo mission to explore the Jupiter
>>system and supervised the final descent of
>>the spacecraft into the clouds of Jupiter after
>>its 14 year mission of exploration. She will
>>review the many exciting discoveries from
>>Galileo and show the best of the spectacular
>>images of Jupiter's stormy clouds and
>>puzzling moons.
>>
>>Dr. Alexander currently serves as Project
>>Manager and Project Scientist for the U.S.
>>section of the Rosetta Project, launched
>>this March and heading for a rendezvous
>>with and landing on a comet in 2014. She
>>has a PhD in space physics from the
>>University of Michigan and a BA in geophysics
>>from Berkeley. She switched her interests
>>from looking down to looking up after spending
>>the summer after high school as an intern
>>at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain
>>View.
>>
>>Co-sponsored by:
>>NASA Ames Research Center
>>The Foothill College Astronomy Program
>>The SETI Institute
>>The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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