美高梅博彩将在千禧年举办天文馆展览
February 7, 2000
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美高梅博彩将在千禧年举办天文馆展览
这到底是哪个世纪？ To find out, come to "The New
Millennium," 美高梅博彩's planetarium show on
Thursday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. Dr. Martha A. Leake will review the
timekeeping efforts of the centuries and explain why the millennium
is still ahead of us, despite the fact that the shift to year 2000
has occurred. The reckoning of the calendar has never been
straightforward, and Leake will explain some of the skips and
twists in our modern "Gregorian" Calendar.
The program will include a look ahead at the celestial events of
2000, as well as a visit to the vs上 Observatory. Weather
permitting, the Pleiades star cluster and the Orion nebula should
be visible. The visible planets put on their last show for a while
as they disappear in the Sun's glare. Jupiter and Saturn should be
visible after the show, but Mars and Mercury will have already set.
On May 5, the so-called planetary alignment, those planets will be
nearly in line with the sun.
There was a lunar eclipse Jan. 20-21, and there will be six more
eclipses of various types this year, visible in different parts of
the world. The year 2000 also heralds the arrival of the peak of
the sun's activity cycle: lots of sunspots, solar flares and
geomagnetic storms can be expected. How will these events affect
Earth? This November, we may see another spectacular Leonid meteor
shower.
"The New Millennium" is the third show in vs上's 1999-2000
planetarium series, "Time and Again." In the fourth show, "Two
Centuries of Color," scheduled for April 13, 2000, Dr. Cecilia
Barnbaum will take another look at the colors of celestial objects.
This event is free and open to the public, although space is
limited. 没有预定，所以请早点来。 The vs上
Planetarium is located in Nevins Hall. For more information on
these or other vs上 planetarium programs, or to schedule a private
show for a class or tour group, please call the Department of
Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences at 333-5752.
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