Abstract of the talk by Tim Van Hoolst: "Rocky planets and icy moons in our solar system"
Abstract is available only in Dutch!
Here are some impressions of the lecture by Prof. Tim Van Hoolst, the last
lecture in our series. Click on the images for a large version!
A view on the audience. This time about 120 people attended the lecture. In
total, we could welcome almost 1000 guests to all lectures of our series!
Before the actual lecture of Prof. Van Hoolst started, Joris Blommaert gave an
overview of things that had happened at the Instituut voor Sterrenkunde
throughout this International Year of Astronomy. This included the launch of
the Herschel infrared space observatory, in which the IvS is involved in the
PACS instrument, the commissioning of the Hermes spectrograph at the institute's
Mercator telescope on the island of La Palma, as well as break-through
publications in astroseismology. Here are two impressions of Joris'
presentation:
Then it was Tim's turn to give his lecture on "Rocky planets and icy moons in
our solar system". The diversity of small bodies in our solar system and
phenomena in and on them is fascinating!
The audience was clearly captivated!
After the lecture, we were happy to give away ten Galileoscopes to the audience.
Luckily, there were exactly ten people in the audience who had
followed all the lectures of the series (professional astronomers excluded).
Thank you again for your faithful attendance of the lectures, and enjoy the
wonders of skies with your Galileoscope!
A small reception after the lecture marked the end of the lecture series.
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