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

[Tom Lloyd]

Sounds interesting, I'll be there.

Tom


On 14 October 2013 11:39, Steven Whitehouse <steve at chygwyn.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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