{"id":2221,"date":"2020-09-17T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2020-09-17T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:24:37","slug":"gospacewatch-world-space-week-online-lecture-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/gospacewatch-world-space-week-online-lecture-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"GoSpaceWatch World Space Week Online Lecture Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Persephone: Pluto System Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday 7 October 2020 at 7:30 pm UK Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Dr Carly Howett: Assistant Director of the Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About the Lecture: Persephone is a NASA-funded concept mission study to investigate the feasibility of sending a mission to orbit within the Pluto system and further investigate the Kuiper Belt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will discuss the science motivation for returning to Pluto, as well as the complexities and difficulties with sending a probe to Pluto. Dr. Carly Howett (SwRI) is the Principal Investigator of Persephone, and is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Ralph Instrument on NASA\u2019s New Horizons mission (which encountered Pluto in 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For tickets at just \u00a33.00 each please visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/online-lecture-persephone-pluto-system-orbiter-and-kuiper-belt-explorer-tickets-119397943463\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/online-lecture-persephone-pluto-system-orbiter-and-kuiper-belt-explorer-tickets-119397943463<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Michael Bryce<br><em>Newsletter Editor, Federation of Astronomical Societies<br><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@fedastro.org.uk\">newsletter@fedastro.org.uk<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fedastro.org.uk\/\">www.fedastro.org.uk<\/a><\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persephone: Pluto System Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer Wednesday 7 October 2020 at 7:30 pm UK Time By Dr Carly Howett: Assistant Director of the Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA About the Lecture: Persephone is a NASA-funded concept mission study to investigate the feasibility of sending a mission to orbit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Martin Baker","author_link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/author\/martin_baker\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 17 September, 2020","modified":"Updated on 17 September, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 17 September, 2020 9:23 am","modified":"Updated on 17 September, 2020 9:24 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NBna-zP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}