CPSS Lecture Series
 - 2nd Term 2004
Wednesday Evenings 7pm to 9.30pm - All audio/visual equipment available - warm clothing advisable in the later months
DATE TIME TITLE SPEAKER AFFILIATION
28th April 1 7.00pm Opening of Lecture Series by Head of Science - Ray Priskich Ray Priskich Trinity College
  Introduction to Centre for Planetary and Space Studies David Cooper Mars Society Aust
  2 8.30pm The significance of the 580 Ma Acraman impact (updated) Dr Kathleen Grey Geol. Surv. Of WA
           
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5th May 1 7.00pm The 2004 Robotic Invasion of Mars." Dr Graham Mann Murdoch Uni, MSA
  CPSS
  2 8.30pm Mars in the Arctic, Houghton Crater, Devon Is MS Video  
           
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12th May 1 7.00pm How to recognize fossil life on Mars: Dr Kathleen Grey Geol. Surv. Of WA
  lessons from Western Australia’s 3 500 million-year record  
  2 8.30pm Two Bright Comets in May 2004 Peter Birch Perth Observatory
           
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19th May 1 7.00pm Pluto Grant Thornett AGWA
  /Ian Bacon  
  2 8.30pm Psychology of Space Travel Video ANU, MSA
           
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26th May 1 7.00pm Meteorite impacts with special reference to WA Dr Franco Pirajno GSWA
   
  2 8.30pm Flight into Orbit - Conquest of the Cosmos - Part 1 Video BLP Co
      Unreleased information of Russian manned space flight    
DATE TIME TITLE SPEAKER
2nd June 1 7.00pm Links between life and hot springs on Earth: clues for the search of life on other planets Dr Franco Pirajno GSWA
   
  2 8.30pm The Long Way to Mars - Conquest of the Cosmos - Part 2 Video BLP co
      Unreleased information of Russian manned space flight    
DATE TIME TITLE SPEAKER
9th June 1 7.00pm The Australian Vomit Comet: Adventures in nausea Dr Rob Hart DoMed Img, Curtin Uni
  MSA
  2 8.30pm From X-Planes to Space Shuttle Video NASA
      The Official NASA Video    
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16th June 1 7.00pm Meteorites as the foundation of Solar Systems Dr Alex Bevan WA Museum
   
  2 8.30pm Hyperspectral Mapping on Earth and Mars - an overview Adrian Brown Aust Ctr Astrobiology
      (Detection of habitable zones on Mars using remote sensing)    
DATE TIME TITLE SPEAKER
23rd June 1 7.00pm Introducing the Mars Society Australia David Cooper Vice-President
  MSA
  2 7.30pm MARS, Pioneering a Planet Video MS/BBC/Discovery.com
           
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30th June 1 7.00pm Stirling Engines for Space Ron Shannon  
  An old solution for a new millenium - Build your own!  
  2 8.30pm Human Exploration and Settlement of Mars - A One Way Trip? Jozef Michalek MSA
           
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7th July 1 7.00pm SPACE ELEVATOR - Cheap access to the Cosmos Philip Ragan Inst. Scientific Research
   
  2 8.30pm History of Astronomy in Australia Ian Bacon/Grant Thornett AGWA
      Close of Lecture series, details of CPSS Term 3 events David Cooper CPSS, MSA