Science by the Pint -- Messing up the environment in outer space: A story of space shrapnel

When:
Monday, Apr 10, 2017 6:30p -
8:30p

Where:
The Burren
247 Elm Street
Somerville, MA 02144

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Alcohol, Date Idea, Food, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, Tech, University

Event website:
sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint

Science by the Pint is a free science café in which we invite a Boston-area research lab out to a pub or brewery to chat science over a cold one. The events are geared toward a general audience – all are welcome and no experience is necessary!


Our speaker will give a brief overview of her/his research and answer all of your questions. After that, the rest of the lab – grad students, postdoctoral researchers, research assistants, etc. – will rotate around the tables to have small-group, informal conversations about what they're working on.


This week's event features Dr. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. It's been sixty years since the first artificial Earth satellite, and it's starting to get crowded up there. Dr. McDowell will talk about the challenges of managing the space environment, how the spacefaring nations of the world are trying but failing to be tidier in their use of Earth orbits, and some of the other ways humans could mess up outer space.

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