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Fernbank Science Center
Saturday, June 29, in recognition of International Asteroid Day (June 30), the anniversary of the Tunguska air burst over Siberia in 1908, Fernbank Science Center will be showing a special line up of planetarium shows sure to make an impact! Andat 1:00 p.m. we will have a special free talk about meteorites presented by Dave Gheesling from the Meteorite Association of Georgia (MAG). MAG members also will be on-hand to show off meteorites and impact rocks. And members of the Atlanta Astronomy Club will be around to talk telescopes. Maybe we’ll see a fireball in the sky? (https://www.space.com/beta-taurid-meteor-shower-tunguska-explosion-planetary-defense.html)
From 10-11 a.m. we will have a free open discussion of asteroid and comet impacts with Fernbank staff scientist, planetary geologist Scott Harris, as we watch the Asteroid Day broadcast from Luxembourg.
From 11 a.m.-noon, we will have our traditional Sky Tonight program with an impact twist.
From noon-1 p.m. we will show the fulldome feature Firefall. At 2 p.m. we offer a very special showing of Incoming! narrated by George Takei followed by Impact Earth at 3 p.m. and an encore of Incoming! at 4 p.m.
All fulldome features and The Sky Tonight are regular admission. Talks and discussions are free. Please see our website http://www.fernbank.edu/ for details.
