World Space Week
FYI. Heard that 250 + students are coming down. Welcome any volunteers to help with telescope display.
Cheers, Chris.
Talk on ‘Life on Alien Planets’
Date: 4 Oct 2005 (Tue)
Time: 3:40pm – 5:40pm
Venue: Lecture Theater 1, National Junior College
Speaker: Dr Sarita Dara and Mr Goh Hock Leong
Cost: Free
Target Audience: Upper Primary School students
Description:
The technology is advancing and one of the rewards is that now human is able to locate planets
revolving around other stars. These planets are called exoplanets. The first part of the talk will
discuss on how these exoplanets are found and how important are they to human.
The second part of the talk is about astrobiology. The definition of life will be examined and we
will look closer at how human biology will be different on other planets as the exoplanets’
gravity, pressure and radiation will be different.
At the end of the talk, students will get to have a hands-on explanation of how a telescope works.
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World Space Week, declared by the United Nations General Assembly, is held every year from 4 to 10 October. 4 October is the date that Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite, was launched in 1957. 10 October is the date that the General Assembly adopted the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. The purpose of World Space Week is to celebrate annually, at the international level, the contribution that space science and technology can make to the betterment of the human condition.
World Space Week is not just a United Nations event. Everyone is encouraged to celebrate World Space Week in any way they can.
Countries, organizations and people around the World will be celebrating World Space Week this year. You can find out more about what is happening from Spaceweek International Association, a non-government organization, at
www.spaceweek.org.
World Space Week 2005 – Discovery and Imagination
This year's theme is "Discovery and Imagination." Participants are encouraged to focus their World Space Week activities on solar system exploration, as well as the impacts of space exploration on discovery and human imagination.
