Events
The next meeting of the Meteorite Association of Georgia will be October 4th (a Saturday) beginning at 11:30am.
We will meet at Everybody's Pizza at 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of N.Decatur Rd. and Oxford Rd. (right across from Emory University's main entrance.) You can have a salad, sandwich or pizza. It's all good; I've been going there for 27 years and haven't been disappointed yet. Let me know ASAP if you will be meeting us at Everybody's so I can alert the wait staff.
After we eat, we'll proceed to Emory's Math/Science Library just across the street. (I just happen to know the manager). We'll have our meeting (please submit any agenda items to me), our presentation from Dr. Reynolds, and general frivolity, trading, swapping and telling stories will ensue. (If we've run out of time, we can put this part off until after MarsQuest at Fernbank.)
Our guest speaker, Dr. Mike Reynolds, is an astronomer who teaches at Florida Community College in Jacksonville, and author of "Falling Stars". He will give a talk about his meteorite hunting adventures in Antarctica.
After the meeting, Ed Albin, astronomer at Fernbank, has invited us to see the presentation "MarsQuest" at the Fernbank Science Center off Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta. (Not the Fernbank Museum of Natural History on Clifton Rd.) For a map and directions, visit http://fsc.fernbank.edu/directions.htm. The show starts at 3pm, so we will want to arrive early, so start heading over around 2:30pm. It will be shown in the Planetarium. Cost is $4.00 per person. It will last about 45 minutes. Note: The Observatory is not open on Saturdays. (Drat!)
Anita Westlake, El Presidente
Our 2009 3rd quarter meeting was held at the Tellus Museum in Cartersville.
Our first anniversary MAG meeting was a great success. Thanks to those of you who attended - this was the one you did not want to miss! The meeting minutes will follow shorthy, but we had a very short business meeting, followed by a wonderful cook-out, a great behinds the scenes tour of the Tellus Museum, and an out of this world guest speaker, Hal Povenmire.