[Swansea Hackspace] IET Talk: Science of Armageddon (14th November)

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

This may be of interest to those of you on this list. On 14th November,
Jay Tate, FRAS, Director of the Spaceguard Centre will be giving a talk
to the IET. The talk will be on the subject of the threat to the earth
from Near Earth objects (NEOs) and what can/is/should be done about
them.

The talk is FREE to all, and everybody is welcome, whether IET members
or not. Refreshments and networking before lecture: 7:00pm, Lecture
itself starts at 7:45pm. Location is Faraday Lecture Theatre A, Swansea
University.

If you are thinking of coming, please do register here:
http://www.theiet.org/events/local/188232.cfm
so that the organisers know roughly how many people are coming, however
it is not essential to register beforehand.

Those of you who have visited Spaceguard will also know that Jay is a
very knowledgeable and entertaining speaker. The current project
(Project Drax - and yes, it is named after a Bond villain!) at
Spaceguard is to build and install a schmidt camera (telescope) which
has been donated to them by Cambridge University. When working this will
be the largest telescope in Wales,

Steve.