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X-WR-CALDESC:As part of the 2019 Bay Area Science Festival\, astronomer And
 rew Fraknoi will give a non-technical\, illustrated talk  on “50 Years Sin
 ce Our First Step: What Do We Know about the Moon?”  The talk will be on F
 riday evening\, Nov. 1\, at 6 pm\, at the Chabot Space and Science Center 
 in the Oakland hills.  Admission costs $5\, and advance reservations are s
 trongly recommended. The fee also gets you into the science center and the
  telescopes\, all of which will be open that evening.  See: http://bit.ly/
 moonlecture for more information and a ticket link.\n \nJuly 2019 was the 
 50th anniversary of humanity’s first steps on the surface of the Moon. In 
 that time\, the Apollo missions\, a fleet of robotic probes\, and observat
 ions from Earth have taught us a lot about Earth’s surprising satellite. I
 n this introductory talk\, we will look at the past\, present\, and future
  of the Moon\, including its violent origins\, the mystery of the frozen w
 ater we have found at its poles\, and its long-term future as it moves fur
 ther and further away from us.\n\nAndrew Fraknoi recently retired as the C
 hair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College\, and now teaches non
 -credit astronomy classes at the Fromm Institute at the U. of San Francisc
 o and the OLLI program at SF State.  He was Executive Director of the Astr
 onomical Society of the Pacific for 14 years\, and is the lead author of a
  popular on-line astronomy textbook\, published by the non-profit OpenStax
  project.  He has also written two children’s books and three published sc
 ience fiction stories. Asteroid 4859 has been named Asteroid Fraknoi by th
 e International Astronomical Union in recognition of his contributions to 
 the public understanding of astronomy. For more on the 2020 Bay Area Scien
 ce Festival\, see: http://bayareasciencefestival.org
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DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2019 Bay Area Science Festival\, astronomer Andr
 ew Fraknoi will give a non-technical\, illustrated talk  on “50 Years Sinc
 e Our First Step: What Do We Know about the Moon?”  The talk will be on Fr
 iday evening\, Nov. 1\, at 6 pm\, at the Chabot Space and Science Center i
 n the Oakland hills.  Admission costs $5\, and advance reservations are st
 rongly recommended. The fee also gets you into the science center and the 
 telescopes\, all of which will be open that evening.  See: http://bit.ly/m
 oonlecture for more information and a ticket link.\n \nJuly 2019 was the 5
 0th anniversary of humanity’s first steps on the surface of the Moon. In t
 hat time\, the Apollo missions\, a fleet of robotic probes\, and observati
 ons from Earth have taught us a lot about Earth’s surprising satellite. In
  this introductory talk\, we will look at the past\, present\, and future 
 of the Moon\, including its violent origins\, the mystery of the frozen wa
 ter we have found at its poles\, and its long-term future as it moves furt
 her and further away from us.\n\nAndrew Fraknoi recently retired as the Ch
 air of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College\, and now teaches non-
 credit astronomy classes at the Fromm Institute at the U. of San Francisco
  and the OLLI program at SF State.  He was Executive Director of the Astro
 nomical Society of the Pacific for 14 years\, and is the lead author of a 
 popular on-line astronomy textbook\, published by the non-profit OpenStax 
 project.  He has also written two children’s books and three published sci
 ence fiction stories. Asteroid 4859 has been named Asteroid Fraknoi by the
  International Astronomical Union in recognition of his contributions to t
 he public understanding of astronomy. For more on the 2020 Bay Area Scienc
 e Festival\, see: http://bayareasciencefestival.org
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LOCATION:Chabot Space and Science Center in the Oakland hills
SUMMARY:Talk about Our Current Understanding of the Moon at Chabot Science 
 Center in Oakland
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