Our next meeting:
Tuesday March 17th 2015
JJ’s Bistro
3447 Waialae Avenue in Kaimuki (between 9th and 10th Avenues)
Social/dinner hour from 6 pm: talk starts 7 pm
Everybody welcome: no admission charge
Note that JJs is BYOB, but Tamura’s liquor store is right across the street.
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Dr Karen Meech
UH Institute for Astronomy
The Origin of the Earth's Water
Water, the wellspring of life on Earth, is one of the most common
molecules in space, but no one know how it was delivered to our
planet and the other rocky worlds of the inner solar system. Understanding how water reaches habitable worlds is not only important for our solar system, but in understanding whether the myriad of extrasolar planets being discovered could support life.
Dr. Meech will talk about current ideas of where water came from-- including perspectives from recent and future space missions.