The next meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on Friday, November 18th at 7 pm in the Community Room of the Student Union Building at Cochise College, 901 North Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635.
The speaker will be Dr. Vishnu Reddy, an assistant professor at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Dr. Reddy’s research focuses on understanding the behavior of solar system objects using a range of Earth and space-based assets. His work on asteroids and near-Earth objects is directed towards their impact hazard and asteroid-meteorite links. He uses the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, as well as other advanced instrumentation.
Vishnu’s talk will cover the threat to Earth from Near Earth Objects (NEOs).