October 9: Monthly Membership Meeting

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New Horizons Spacecraft - Artist's depiction of the spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto/Charon system in July 2015. Image Credit: NASA
New Horizons Spacecraft – Artist’s depiction of the spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto/Charon system in July 2015. Image Credit: NASA

The Monthly Membership Meeting of the Cuyahoga Astronomical Association (CAA) will take place on Monday, October 9, beginning at 7:30 PM. An astronomy presentation is first, followed by a social break, and wrapped up with the club’s business meeting.

The night’s program will be a presentation by CAA member Kai Getrost entitled “New Horizons’ Next Target: The Kuiper Belt.” Getrost enjoyed the adventure of a lifetime, traveling to Argentina as part of a 50-team effort to observe and record data on a rare Kuiper Belt object occultation. A distant object, selected as the next object for study by the New Horizons spacecraft, passed in front of a star; data collected from the event has given astronomers a better understanding of the distance and movement of their target.

Free and open to the public, the program and meeting will take place at the at the Rocky River Nature Center; 24000 Valley Parkway; North Olmsted, Ohio, in the Cleveland Metroparks.