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X-WR-CALDESC:Join the NASA Night Sky Network on Tuesday\, June 22 at 6:00pm
  Pacific Time (9:00pm Eastern) to hear Dr. Karl Battams give an overview o
 f sungrazing comets\, and how you can contribute to their study through th
 e Sungrazer Citizen Science project.\n\nSungrazing and near-Sun comets rep
 resent well over half of all officially cataloged comets\, yet are among t
 he most poorly-understood objects in our solar system. Most of these comet
 s follow orbits through space that place them into the most extreme enviro
 nment our solar system has to offer\, most often leading to a one-way deat
 h-plunge into the searing solar corona\, at velocities exceeding 0.2% the 
 speed of light! In this seminar I will begin with an overview of the disco
 very of these comets\, most of which are found via the NASA-funded “Sungra
 zer” Citizen Science project\, and the variety of Sun-watching spacecraft 
 that discover and observe them. I will then briefly describe the various q
 uirks of these comets including their physical and orbital properties\, an
 d discuss their tendency for clustering and fragmentation. Then\, for the 
 remainder of the seminar\, I will provide details on the variety of scienc
 e that we can learn from these comets\, which not only allow us to explore
  fundamental properties of comets\, but also to gain entirely unique scien
 ce regarding the Sun’s outer atmosphere and solar outflows.\n\n About Dr. 
 Karl Battams\n\n Dr. Karl Battams is an astrophysicist and computational s
 cientist based in the Solar and Heliospheric Physics Branch at the US Nava
 l Research Laboratory. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the LASCO 
 coronagraph telescopes on the ESA/NASA SOHO satellite and\, for over seven
 teen years\, has been the PI of the NASA Sungrazer Citizen Science Project
 \, which has discovered more than 4\,100 comets. He is also a member of th
 e science team for several other active heliophysics missions. Karl’s rese
 arch interests span from studies of the solar atmosphere\, to comets and a
 steroids\, to dust trails\, and more. He has presented numerous times on t
 he subject of comets to audiences of all ages and backgrounds\, and given 
 countless online news media\, radio\, and television documentary interview
 s. He tweets about the Sun\, comets\, and more\, as @SungrazerComets on Tw
 itter.\n\nViewing Options\nThe event will stream live on YouTube\, but ple
 ase note that questions asked over the NSN-members-only Zoom Q&A will be p
 rioritized.\n\nThe recording will be uploaded both to the webinar’s resour
 ce page and to the NSN YouTube page for folks that are unable to attend th
 is evening’s session.
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DESCRIPTION:Join the NASA Night Sky Network on Tuesday\, June 22 at 6:00pm 
 Pacific Time (9:00pm Eastern) to hear Dr. Karl Battams give an overview of
  sungrazing comets\, and how you can contribute to their study through the
  Sungrazer Citizen Science project.\n\nSungrazing and near-Sun comets repr
 esent well over half of all officially cataloged comets\, yet are among th
 e most poorly-understood objects in our solar system. Most of these comets
  follow orbits through space that place them into the most extreme environ
 ment our solar system has to offer\, most often leading to a one-way death
 -plunge into the searing solar corona\, at velocities exceeding 0.2% the s
 peed of light! In this seminar I will begin with an overview of the discov
 ery of these comets\, most of which are found via the NASA-funded “Sungraz
 er” Citizen Science project\, and the variety of Sun-watching spacecraft t
 hat discover and observe them. I will then briefly describe the various qu
 irks of these comets including their physical and orbital properties\, and
  discuss their tendency for clustering and fragmentation. Then\, for the r
 emainder of the seminar\, I will provide details on the variety of science
  that we can learn from these comets\, which not only allow us to explore 
 fundamental properties of comets\, but also to gain entirely unique scienc
 e regarding the Sun’s outer atmosphere and solar outflows.\n\n About Dr. K
 arl Battams\n\n Dr. Karl Battams is an astrophysicist and computational sc
 ientist based in the Solar and Heliospheric Physics Branch at the US Naval
  Research Laboratory. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the LASCO c
 oronagraph telescopes on the ESA/NASA SOHO satellite and\, for over sevent
 een years\, has been the PI of the NASA Sungrazer Citizen Science Project\
 , which has discovered more than 4\,100 comets. He is also a member of the
  science team for several other active heliophysics missions. Karl’s resea
 rch interests span from studies of the solar atmosphere\, to comets and as
 teroids\, to dust trails\, and more. He has presented numerous times on th
 e subject of comets to audiences of all ages and backgrounds\, and given c
 ountless online news media\, radio\, and television documentary interviews
 . He tweets about the Sun\, comets\, and more\, as @SungrazerComets on Twi
 tter.\n\nViewing Options\nThe event will stream live on YouTube\, but plea
 se note that questions asked over the NSN-members-only Zoom Q&A will be pr
 ioritized.\n\nThe recording will be uploaded both to the webinar’s resourc
 e page and to the NSN YouTube page for folks that are unable to attend thi
 s evening’s session.
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SUMMARY:Free Live NSN Webinar Series: Supersonic Snowballs in Hell: the Sci
 ence of Sungrazing Comets
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