2012 is a really big year for astronomers with a number of notable events such as the transit of Venus and eclipses taking place. To mark this special year, the Glasgow Science Centre has teamed up with Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) from the University of Glasgow to bring you a series of lectures under the glittering stars of the GSC planetarium.  Each talk lasts approximately one hour with time for discussion and questions afterwards. 

  • On 21st January 2012, join astrophysicist Dr Alexander MacKinnon, to hear about Asteroids and the NASA Dawn mission. 
  • On 4 February, Dr Lyndsay Fletcher will lecture on the Solar Maximum expected in 2013 and answer questions on the phenomena. 
  • On 10 March, Professor Martin Hendry will present a talk on Captain Cook and the cosmic yard stick. He will look at the hazardous journeys of Cook and his contemporaries and examine how they led to knowledge of the size of the solar system, and at global attempts to repeat this discovery in 2012.
  • On 17 March, Professor John Brown will examine what happens when a comet crashes into the Sun - something that happens much more often than planet collisions.

Tickets cost £10 and include entry in to the Science Mall for the day of the lecture. For more information and to book tickets visit DACE online or call 0141 330 1835

First published: 20 January 2012

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