{"id":718,"date":"2013-03-06T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=718"},"modified":"2013-03-06T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:26:47","slug":"march-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"March Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Topic: Starmus, An Astronomical Adventure<\/h3>\n<h3><em>Speaker: Kathryn Gray<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>t = This Saturday, March 9, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>R = Avonport, 475 Bluff Road<\/p>\n<p>Some background on our March speaker, the youngest speaker we have <br \/>had at MAG:<\/p>\n<p>On January 2, 2011, Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a supernova in a <br \/>distant galaxy. Kathryn found it on images taken by Dave Lane of <br \/>Halifax, as part of the supernova search program that Dave and Paul, <br \/>Kathryn&#8217;s father, have been pursuing for several years. Her discovery <br \/>made headlines because, at 10 years of age, she was the youngest <br \/>person ever to make such a discovery. That June, Starmus Festival, a <br \/>5-day celebration of astronomy and space flight, commemorating the <br \/>50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin&#8217;s flight into space, brought <br \/>astronomers, other scientists, and astronauts from around the world <br \/>to the Canary Islands. Kathryn was invited.<\/p>\n<p>Following the hype around Kathryn&#8217;s discovery of SN2010lt she was\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>invited to participate in a number of events at Starmus. The most <br \/>exciting of all was an invitation to perform the official opening of <br \/>Starmus! In this presentation Kathryn will highlight some of her <br \/>amazing adventures in the Canary Islands where she and her parents <br \/>had a chance to meet many interesting people from astronomy, space <br \/>flight, music and art backgrounds that made Starmus the amazing event it<br \/>was.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic: Starmus, An Astronomical Adventure Speaker: Kathryn Gray t = This Saturday, March 9, 7 p.m. R = Avonport, 475 Bluff Road Some background on our March speaker, the youngest speaker we have had at MAG: On January 2, 2011, Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a supernova in a distant galaxy. Kathryn found it on images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-talk","category-activities-in-astronomy-related-to-mag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}