Talk on NASA's New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Beyond

[yrajsm]

Hello Everyone!

Krittika(Astronomy Club) and Tinkerers Laboratory announces yet another talk on NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Beyond by Dr. Henry Throop .
Date : 13th March 2016
Time : 7 pm 
Venue : VMCC (main auditorium) 

After a nine-year journey through space, astronomers visited Pluto for the first time in July 2015, using a robotic NASA spacecraft called New Horizons. Despite being a cold and small icy body, New Horizons found Pluto’s surface to be young, dynamic and varied. Planetary Scientist Dr. Henry Throop will tell us about this NASA spacecraft mission, from its development and construction, through launch in 2006, to its successful encounter with Pluto, and plans for onward encounters with bodies in the distant Kuiper Belt. 

About the Speaker:
Throop is a Senior Scientist with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He received a PhD in Planetary Science from the University of Colorado, USA, in 2000. His work focuses on the outer solar system, and he has published over 40 articles in scientific journals, on topics ranging from to rings of Saturn and Jupiter, to planet and star formation, to astrobiology and the origins of life, to searching for (and co-discovering) Pluto's smallest moon, Styx, in 2012. He is a frequent consultant to the US's NASA and the National Science Foundation. While working at NASA, he managed two of NASA's major scientific research programs. Throop is member of the science team for NASA’s New Horizons mission, and was involved in its historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015.
While living in South Africa for three years, Throop worked extensively with rural schools, helping to develop their science programs and inspire the next generation of leaders. He has presented more than 100 lectures for science festivals, planetariums, school groups, and public events across the USA, Mexico, Africa, and India. Throop’s work has been featured in Science, Nature , Time, The Washington Post, and on the History Channel and National Geographic TV.

Regards

Yograj