by Pamela | Mar 10, 2008 | Personal
I just with a couple of friends in a large auditorium to listen to a presentation on the Caloris Basin on Mercury. There is a chair between each of us. Looking around the room, the standard is to have an empty chair between each person. There are 2 reasons: We all...
by Pamela | Mar 10, 2008 | Personal
I’m spending my morning in a session on Mercury and Messenger’s new results. There is no WiFi in here, so this is all getting posted in one large, time-delayed, lump. There are also no websites being noted so press can go get images, so this is going to be...
by Pamela | Mar 9, 2008 | Personal
Following the small group break-out session, they brought us all together (with coffee… They are doing an great job feeding and liquefying us) so each group could go over their group’s discussion. One of the themes that keeps coming up over and over is the...
by Pamela | Mar 9, 2008 | Personal
This morning I’m attending an educators workshop at the Lunar and Planetary Institute on “Returning to the Moon.” At 8:45am on a Sunday I find my self in a room packed with formal educators, EPO professionals (that’s my category today), and...
by Pamela | Mar 9, 2008 | Personal
My student Scott is off to see the Space Shuttle Launch (I’m so jealous). He is blogging about it over on Astronomy Cast Live. Please go check out what he has to say and leave him some comments. STS-123 – A Space Geek’s Pilgrimage: Part I STS-123...
by Pamela | Mar 9, 2008 | Astronomy, Meetups, Travel
Part of the reason I’m able to attend the LPSC meeting in Houston is its convenient location in time. Its mid-March date span landed exactly on my Spring Break. For some reason, however, this knowledge hadn’t triggered a flag in my brain to warn me that it...
