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Meeting Date
Novice Meeting Topic
Sketching Planets
Novice Meeting Speaker
Scott Mitchell
General Meeting Topic
The Sky IS Falling, and Other Astrometric Adventures
General Meeting Speaker
Dr. Fritz Benedict, Senior Research Scientist, McDonald Observatory

Astrometry, one of the oldest forms of astronomy, remains valuable. With Hubble Space Telescope we continue to contribute to the hot topics of exoplanets (planetary sizes, masses, and composition(!)) and stellar astrophysics (the intrinsic brightnesses of stars that go “boom”). As for the falling sky, yes, it is an astrometric result. But you’ll have to come and find out why and when.