AGM

It's that time of year again, our second AGM is comming up soon.

24th April, JH3 7:30 pm.

Positions up for grabs:

1. President
2. Vice-President
3. Treasurer
4. Secrtary
5. PRO
6. Projects Officer

And as always there will be free pizza and drinks.

Hope to see you there.

Hoodies

The moment that you have all been waiting for all year has arrived.

The Astro 2 hoodies have arrived. They cost €15 please email me your size and then turn up to a meeting to claim one.

Hoodies are going fast so get in there quick if you want one.

IOP Quiz

For those of you who want to see the quiz for last year's IOP Intervarsity quiz, here's a link to it.

http://www.iopireland.org/news/11/file_50105.pdf

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Edit: 6-3-2012

Also for those that want to read the article about the quiz this year, here's a link to it.

http://www.iopireland.org/news/12/page_54490.html

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Open Days

Welcome to all that paid us a visit on the Open Days.

Our Meetings are every tuesday, currently.

We have people from various fields that come in and give talks which are usually about an hour in length with refreshments afterwards. These are people from all fields of science and cover everything from amateurs to leading academics in their field.

After the meetings we have astronomical observing sessions on the science building roof, weather permitting of course.

Every year we have a trip abroad, last year we visited CERN and this year we plan to visit Hamburg.

If you want to know more, drop us an email. Astro2@nuimsu.com

We hope to see many of you next year at fairs day.

Science Week

Hi Guy's,
Welcome to our epic week of epicness.

Our big event will be on THURSDAY when we will be having Dr Mark Clampin from NASA's JWST project. This is at 7:30 JH2. Come along and bring your friends, family and all your extendend relations. Even art's students are welcome.

There will be observing on tuesday, thursday and friday, weather permitting of course. For the last two they will be infront of the science building rather than on the roof, and we get to play with the departments nice big scopes.

Hope to see you there,
John Rogers,

President

ASTEROID

There is going to be an asteroid passing close to earth, closer than the moon, in the next week. The best time to see it will be tuesday, unfortunatley it won't be visable to the naked eye and only larger telescopes will pick it up, but if we have an observing session then it's worth a try to catch it.

For more info:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/huge-asteroid-headed-close-encounter-earth-184902787.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57319096-76/giant-asteroid-to-get-closer-than-moon/