Undaunted Exploration: Revealing Our Solar System From Asteroids To Pluto (speaker: Richard Binzel, MIT)

Wednesday November 30, 2016 6:00 pm

You can view a livecast of a presentation by MIT Professor Richard P. Binzel tomorrow @ 6:00pm (Wednesday, November 30).  Professor Binzel is a co-investigator on NASA’s New Horizons fly-by of Pluto (July 2015) and is Principal Investigator of the student-built REXIS experiment aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission (recently launched on September 8th).

EVENT INFORMATION:

Date: 11/30/2016

Start Time: 6pm

End Time: 7.30pm

Title: Undaunted Exploration: Revealing our Solar System from Asteroids to Pluto

Description: Professor Richard Binzel will present results from NASA’s New Horizons mission

Livecast Link:  http://webcast.amps.ms.mit.edu/fall2016/EAPS/1649/3/  
 

Additional information:

MIT Professor Richard P. Binzel is a co-investigator on NASA’s New Horizons fly-by of Pluto in July 2015 and is Principal Investigator of the student-built REXIS experiment aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission that was recently launched on September 8th.

The latest on Pluto is descbribed in this November 16th MIT News article. It will be featured in the talk:
http://news.mit.edu/2016/new-horizons-water-ice-ocean-pluto-1116