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