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Maurice Gavin Memorial Lecture – Dr George Seabrooke – The Gaia Revolution Continues.

June 12 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Dr. George Seabrooke is an astronomer and Principal Research Fellow at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) at University College London. He is involved in multiple European Space Agency missions – ESA’s billion star surveyor, Gaia ; ESA’s dark matter mission, ARRAKIHS (Analysis of Resolved Remnants of Accreted galaxies as a Key Instrument for Halo Surveys) and GaiaNIR (Gaia Near Infra Red) proposal to ESA.

He is a key member of the Gaia Black Hole Task Force and contributed to the discovery of Gaia-BH3, a dormant stellar black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun.

There will also be a presentation on the sky at night for the coming month.
If you would like further details then please contact Anita King.

Details

Date:
June 12
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Organizer

Anita King
Email:
ewellastro@gmail.com

Venue

Nonsuch High School for Girls
Ewell Road, Sutton
Cheam, Surrey SM3 8AB United Kingdom
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