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DeMayo gives lecture on comets
January 24, 2003
CARROLLTON, GA - Comets and meteors have long fascinated mankind. On Friday, Feb. 7, Dr. Ben de Mayo, professor emeritus of physics at the University of West Georgia, will discuss the subject of that fascination when he presents the program “Comets and other Cosmic Visitors.”
With the help of NASA animations, photos and computer simulations, the audience will ride along on Halley’s comet as it swoops through the solar system, and they will take side trips to the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona and to the site in Siberia of the Tunguska Event of 1908, a mysterious explosion felt 3,000 miles away.
This program is one of a series of programs sponsored by the Georgia Space Grant Consortium-NASA and the UWG Departments of Physics and Continuing Education.
The program is free and open to the public and is appropriate for ages six and older. It will be held in the Crider Lecture Hall from 7 to 8 p.m.
For more information, contact Dora Hayes, coordinator of community programs in Continuing Education, at 770-836-6612 or de Mayo at 770-836-4317.
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