{"id":2974,"date":"2016-10-11T21:16:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinastro.org\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2016-10-11T21:16:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T02:16:43","slug":"general-assembly-meeting-this-friday-oct-14-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/11\/general-assembly-meeting-this-friday-oct-14-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"General Assembly meeting this Friday, Oct 14, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the regular monthly AAS General Assembly meeting.<br \/>\nOur Practical Astronomy speaker will be: Greg Rohde will speak on The Care and Feeding of your Telescope. The Practical Astronomy session begins at 6:30 pm.<br \/>\nOur Featured Speaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsg.utexas.edu\/researcher\/william_ambrose\/\">Dr. Bill Ambrose<\/a>, will be talking about human habitation and resource development on the Moon, Mars, and the Asteroids, plus terraforming on Mars.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBiography:<br \/>\nResearch Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, UT<br \/>\nCurrently Vice-Chair of the AAPG Astrogeology Committee.<br \/>\nEditor of AAPG Memoir 101, \u201cEnergy Resources for Human Settlement in the Solar System and Earth\u2019s Future in Space\u201d and Editor of GSA Special Publication 477, \u201cRecent Advances and Current Research Issues in Lunar Stratigraphy.\u201d<br \/>\nAmateur lunar astronomer\u2014have made more than 400 sketches\/drawings of lunar features<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly meets in room 2.136 of the Engineering Teaching Center on the NW corner of Dean Keeton and San Jacinto, on the UT campus. Parking is free after 6:00 pm on nearby streets. Garage parking (not free) is also available at the Speedway Garage,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the regular monthly AAS General Assembly meeting. Our Practical Astronomy speaker will be: Greg Rohde will speak on The Care and Feeding of your Telescope. The Practical Astronomy session begins at 6:30 pm. Our Featured Speaker, Dr. Bill Ambrose, will be talking about human habitation and resource development on the Moon, Mars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}