Asteroid (28958) Binns

Hilda May (Torok) Binns (b. 1945) is a retired multi-sport athlete who won Canada’s first Paralympic gold medal in Tel Aviv in 1968. She won a total of six medals in two Paralympics and many medals and honors in other national and international competitions.

Orbit Type: Jupiter Trojan (leading)

Ref: WGSBN Bull. 1, #1, 16

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Asteroid (5311) Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), born and educated in New Zealand, won the 1908 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on radioactive disintegration of elements. He was the first to develop radioactive dating of the Earth, established the nuclear atom, and predicted the existence of the neutron. From 1898 to 1907 Rutherford was the Macdonald Professor of physics at McGill University.

Ref: WGSBN Bull. 1, #1, 9

Orbit type: Main Belt

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RASC Edmonton: Monthly Meeting

Event Date: 
Monday, June 14, 2021 - 9:00pm to 11:00pm

Regular Meeting

RASC Edmonton

Regular Meeting, June 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm CDT (9:00 pm EDT)

Everyone is welcome to attend this meeting. RASC members will be making short presentations on their recent projects.

Join the meeting using this Zoom link.

7:00 PM Pre-meeting mix and mingle.
7:30 PM Member Presentations

Presentations:

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Native Skywatchers: Educator and Community Workshop

Event Date: 
Monday, June 14, 2021 - 10:00am to Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 2:30am

Educator and Community Summer Workshop: Indigenous STEM and Wellness, Our Indigenous North American Voices

Native Skywatchers

Monday, June 14, 2021 and Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Start time: 9 am cdt, 10 am edt, 8 am mdt, 7 am pdt
End time: 1:30 pm cdt, 2:20 pm edt, 12:30 pm mdt, 11:30 am pdt

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RASC Vancouver: Intro to Photometry

Event Date: 
Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 10:30pm to 11:45pm

Introduction to Photometry

Presented by Ian Doktor

RASC Vancouver

Abstract:

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EtU-Statti

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ETM-T Greenough

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ETU Urbaniak

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IWLOP-Ennis

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Explore the Moon—Telescope

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