(RESCHEDULED for Sept 6 2023)
Location: Prescott Public Library, Founder’s Suite
Speaker: Nick Moskovitz, PhD
Comments:
Nick Moskovitz, PhD, astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, will talk about the mission of the DART spacecraft, which will deliberately crash into an asteroid at a speed of more than 13,000 mph. Given this dramatic end, ground based telescopes, including several at Lowell Observatory, will be tasked with witnessing the aftermath. Nick will discuss background of the mission, what is expected to happen, and why smashing into things in outer space can be fun.
Bio:
Nick Moskovitz has degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara (BS Physics) and the University of Hawaii (PhD Astronomy). His research is related to small bodies in the Solar System with active projects involving video observations of meteors, curation of an asteroid database (asteroid.lowell.edu), and observations of near-Earth asteroids.