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"A Grand Tour of the Solar System & Beyond"
Award-winning astronomer, author and educator Kevin Manning will present a slide-lecture tourng the mysterious solar system. Take a virtual journey visiting the Sun, planets, their moons, and debris left over from the earlisest times of the solar system's formation. A deatiled look at Pluto as the New Horizons spacecraft takes very high resolution images of this elusive and controversial world after waiting 9 1/2 years to reach it since launch in January , 2006. Following the program, participants will go to Crane Park to view the rings of Saturn, craters on the Moon, etc. througha powerful hand-crafted telescope, weather permitting. This program, co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is geared for adults and children age 8 and older.