NOVAC General Meeting
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at George Mason or Online
November 9, 2025
NOVAC Public Meeting: Join NOVAC Astronomers for an Astro Gear Swap Meet at George Mason November 9, 2025
Annual Swap Meet! All NOVAC members, guests, and the public are welcome to attend—no RSVP required.Join us in person at George Mason University .Come early to connect with fellow astronomy enthusiasts and stay for our annual Astronomy “Garage Sale” event! Meeting Schedule 4:00 PM – Join colleagues at GMU for socializing 4:00 PM – Online
NOVAC Public Meeting, Dr. Nancy Chabot presents: Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): October 12, 4:30 pm EDT
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): The First Mission to Move an Asteroid On September 26, 2022, NASA’s DART mission successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos and made history as the first test of asteroid deflection. As a part of NASA’s overall planetary defense strategy, DART’s impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, which poses no threat to Earth, demonstrated a
NOVAC Public Meeting, Dr. Meredith MacGregor presents: What’s the Space Weather Like on Proxima Centauri?, September 14, 4:30 pm EDT
What’s the Space Weather Like on Proxima Centauri? Stars (including our Sun) are active, periodically releasing bursts of high energy radiation called flares. These flares can destroy molecules in the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets and potentially even erode those atmospheres entirely. In order to understand whether any of our nearest neighbors are in fact habitable,
NOVAC Public Meeting, Dr. Maya Fishbach presents: Listening to Black Holes with LIGO, August 10, 4:30 pm EDT
Black holes are the most extreme objects in our universe. Thanks to incredibly sensitive instruments — known as gravitational-wave observatories — we can “hear” when two black holes crash into each other. We are now routinely listening to gravitational waves from black holes across the Universe. Dr. Maya Fishback will summarize what gravitational waves are,
NOVAC Public Meeting, Dr. David DeVorkin presents: From the Laboratory to the Moon: The Quiet Genius of George Carruthers, July 13, 4:30 pm EDT
Dr. David DeVorkin follows Carruthers from his childhood in Ohio and then Chicago to his career at the US NavalResearch Laboratory in Washington, DC. In the highly competitive world of space science in the 1960s and 1970s, Carruthers’s genius for experimentation and exploration transcended the racial stereotyping and discrimination of his day, and he achieved world-class
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