June 2014
05: General
Meeting: 7:30 pm in our regular meeting room
15: Father’s
Day: Dad’s Special Day……Don’t Forget!
15: Hand
Bell Choir: Member Marilyn Murata will be bell ringing in the main
Sanctuary
19: Board
Meeting: 7:30 pm @ Dick Flaharty’s home.
21: First
Day of Summer: Yikes!! Here comes the heat!
June’s Special People
June 21- Lenny Hellenthal
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Del Air General Meeting: Thursday Jun 05, 2014
7:30 pm in our regular meeting
room at:
Northridge
United Methodist Church - 9650 Reseda Blvd, Northridge, CA 91324
Guests Are Always Welcome
At Our Meetings & Events.
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June 2014 Program:
A Final Look at Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror and on to Exploring
Mars" Presented By: Neil
Mottinger
Neil Mottinger, a Navigation Engineer who works at the
Navigation and Mission Design Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a
company that’s operated by the California Institute of Technology for NASA,
will follow up on the entry, descent and landing activities of the Mars
Curiosity Rover with a narrated video comprised of computer animation and
actual images from the descent camera. He will summarize the travels and
discoveries of Curiosity following the landing and plans to show second
narrated video of some interesting tests of possible sources of linear gullies
noted on the walls of some Mars craters. He will include a little
about the on-going travels of the MER Rover, Opportunity, which has now been
motoring about Mars for 10+ years. In addition, Neil will show some other
astro-images of the skies as seen from Earth, the Milky Way over Half Dome, for
example, as well as explore some interesting objects (planets and moons) in the
Solar System. Emmy Silverman – Program Director
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“Something” of the Month
Find out more at our June meeting and remember to
bring any specimens you may have and share with the group. There will be a
color handout for those of you that have been collecting these info sheets over
the past few years.
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Rockhound
Heaven
Serpentine
trees have peridot leaves, and the lakes are azurite blue.That
turquoise sky with coral clouds—it’s something, I’m telling you!
