Join SoVerA on March 10 for Journey to a Comet. Photo provided
REGION – Join the Southern Vermont Astronomy Group (SoVerA) for their upcoming meeting on March 10, at 7 p.m. The meeting will be via Zoom, and you can join from the SoVerA website, www.sovera.org, or at www.zoom.us/j/94691230307.
The topic for the meeting is “Journey to a Comet,” and the speaker is Gregory T. Shanos. Shanos is a NASA Solar System Ambassador. He first became interested in astronomy in 1985, when he witnessed the apparition of Halley’s Comet. Four decades later, the internet is ablaze with the recent passage of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, raising awareness for the general public. Shanos will discuss the composition of comets, and the six spacecraft that have visited various comets, with a focus on organic molecules that have been discovered.
Shanos earned a double baccalaureate in both pharmacy and chemistry from the University of Rhode Island in 1984, a Master of Arts in teaching from Rhode Island College in 1989, and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Florida in 1999. In 1990, Greg married and relocated to Sarasota, Fla., where he currently resides.