- This event has passed.
The GAL Hassin Foundation participates in this world event by offering three days with various activities: how to discover asteroids and how to study them both from the ground and with space probes sample return. Tunguska Event; The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
In the evening, observations of the sky to the naked eye and search for some asteroids with the Galhassin Robotic Telescope (GRT).
30 June 2023
5.00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. – Tunguska Event. Historical records of the enormous explosion occured in 1908 in Siberia.
5.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. – 66 million years ago. The Great Extintion. The Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs. Guided tour in the GAL Hassin Museum with the collection of various meteorites.
Asteroid Apophis: Case closed. Not a risk to Earth for at least 100 years. GAL Hassin’s contribution to the observations of the most famous asteroid during “99942 Apophis 2021 Observing Campaign” by International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN).
6.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Activities in the Planetarium. Fasten your seat belts and… lift off! Travel through Space and Time and discover the wonders of the Universe in the immersive, full dome Planetarium. Asteroids and comet in our Solar System and from beyond.
1 – 2 July 2023
5.00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. – Pieces of Heaven. A brief History of rocks from Space and Sample Return Missions.
Exploring asteroids, from the first telescope observations to the present day’s sample return missions, with an eye to the future.
5.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. – Meteorites: the key to understand Life on Earth. A sample of carbonaceous chondrite to understand the role that asteroids and other small bodies play in the origins of life on Earth. Guided tour in the GAL Hassin Museum.
– Asteroid Apophis: Case closed. Not a risk to Earth for at least 100 years. GAL Hassin’s contribution to the observations of the most famous asteroid during “99942 Apophis 2021 Observing Campaign” by International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN).
6.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. – Fasten your seat belts and… lift off! Travel through Space and Time and discover the wonders of the Universe in the immersive, full dome Planetarium. Asteroids and comet in our Solar System and from beyond.
(Break)
9.30 p.m. – 11.30 p.m. Eye in the Sly.
Observing Near-Earth Asteroids at GAL Hassin with the Galhassin Robotic Telescope and its educational application.
