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Date: Friday, February 3, 2017
Time: 6:00 pm (doors open 5:30 pm)
Location: Longway Planetarium
Fee: Adult - $6.00 / Child $4.00 / Members - Free, includes admission to 7:00 pm planetarium show. Buy tickets now.
The recent discovery of a distant dwarf planet candidate in our Solar System, made by Stephanie Hamilton and colleagues at the University of Michigan, made national and international news in October of 2016. This new little planet, nicknamed DeeDee, is just one of well over one thousand objects (though among the 50 largest!) that have been discovered past Neptune to date. In this talk, Stephanie will discuss how they use data collected by the the world's most sensitive astronomical camera, mounted on a telescope in Chile, to discover new objects in the outer Solar System (including DeeDee!), and how the small objects in our Solar System are the key to answering its biggest questions. Buy tickets now.
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