Meeting Minutes

• Dr. Peter Strittmatter, Head of the Department of Astronomy, gave a presentation on the history of telescope projects that Steward Observatory has been involved with since its inception.
• We will be holding a star party on Friday, November 20th at Saguaro National Park West. Details will be worked out at the next meeting.
• There will not be an extrasolar planet project meeting this weekend due to SpaceVision 2009. We will pick back up on that on the 21st.
• If you want to catch up on the project, the instructions from the first few meetings are posted here.
• Next week, Dr. Don McCarthy will be meeting up with us to discuss astronomy questions from last week and the new one for this week:
• Which of the following stars is probably youngest?
         A. a 1 solar mass main sequence star
         B. a 1 solar mass white dwarf
         C. a 10 solar mass main sequence star
         D. a 10 solar mass red giant
         E. a 2 solar mass neutron star

Meeting Minutes

• No extra solar planet project meeting this weekend due to Homecoming
  
• Conference call with the Ouida Springer Elementary Astronomy Club on Friday
• Meet at 1:40 pm in the lobby of Steward Observatory
• Sabino Canyon public star party event this Saturday, contact Kevin if you are interested
  
• Our next star party will be November 20th, location TBD
• Astronomy Club officers will hold office hours for club members, hours TBD
• Local Group project meeting Thanksgiving weekend
  
• Don McCarthy presented another question of the week and explained the Sabino Canyon project
  

Problems of the week:

1. Say that cucumbers are on sale, so you buy 100 pounds of them at
your market. The cucumbers are 99% water. Some days later, they dry
out to 98% water.  How much do they weigh now?

2. Nellie Knowital says that the gasoline in a automobile's gas tank
is only about one-fourth of the amount of fuel that runs the engine.
Is she correct? [HINT: Internal combustion engines normally run on one
part gasoline to 14 parts air by mass.]