The Harvard University Club of Houston
invites you and your guest to a Lecture and Planetarium Show
"HMNS Tungunska Asteroid Talk"
The Threat of Asteroid Impacts: From the Age of Dinosaurs to the Present Day
Dr. David A. Kring, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Harvard University, Ph.D '89
Join fellow Harvard alumni on Tuesday, June 30th at the Museum of Natural Science for an Asteroid Evening, and help us welcome Dr. David A. Kring, Senior Staff Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston (Ph.D. '89). The evening will begin with a screening of Impact in the Burke Baker Planetarium at 6 PM, followed by a special lecture by David Kring: The Threat of Asteroid Impacts: From the Age of Dinosaurs to the Present Day. After the show, we'll meet up at nearby Bodegas Taco Shop Restaurant for an after-party reception with Dr. Kring. Bodegas is in walking distance, located at 1200 Binz (phone # 713-528-6102).
MORE ABOUT DAVID
David is an American meteorite researcher and co-discoverer of the crater from the Chicxulub meteorite impact, which may have killed the dinosaurs. A trained astrophysicist and geologist, he studies meteorites to determine how an interstellar disk of gas and dust around the early Sun condensed to form the planets. He studies meteorite impact crater events to determine their geological and biological consequences. Click HERE for David's biography.
In 2013 the world was riveted by the impact of an asteroid near the Russian town of Chelyabinsk, where over 1,000 people were injured. It was an eerie reminder of another, bigger, impact event that flattened a forest near the Tunguska River in Siberia on June 30, 1908—and a modern-day example of the immense dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impact event in the Yucatán. Dr. David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute will describe how these types of impacts events have scarred Earth in the geologic past, the magnitude of their persisting threat today, and the steps we might take to mitigate these types of calamitous events in the future.
The Lunar and Planetary Institute was founded by President Johnson and chartered by The National Academy of Science in 1969. Harvard University is among the members of the USRA.
"HMNS Tungunska Asteroid Talk"
The Threat of Asteroid Impacts: From the Age of Dinosaurs to the Present Day
by
Dr. David Kring, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Harvard Ph.D. '89
(begins promptly at 6)
6:30 PM - HMNS Lecture by David Kring
8 PM - Reception / Happy Hour at Bodegas
to Meet David Kring
Avoid Walk-in Fees and Register by Sunday, June 28, 2015.
Question or need help registering, contact Maureen at HClubHouston@att.net for assistance.