[108] Oct. 7 MTSU Star Party Features 'Tennessee's Meteorite Impact Sites'

Today’s date: Oct. 3, 2011

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Oct. 7 MTSU Star Party features ‘Tennessee’s Meteorite Impact Sites’

MURFREESBORO — MTSU Department of Physics and Astronomy instructor Jana Ruth Ford will discuss “Tennessee’s Meteorite Impact Sites” in the University’s second First Friday Star Party for fall 2011 on Oct. 7.

The star party is scheduled from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m., starting with a 30- to 45-minute public lecture in Wiser-Patten Science Hall Room 102 and eventually going outdoors, weather permitting.

First Friday Star Parties are open to the general public, and MTSU students, faculty and staff. Children are welcome. Free parking is available behind Wiser-Patten beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Star Party Fridays only.

Other First Friday Star Parties this semester will be held Nov. 4 and Dec. 2.

To contact Ford about the lecture, email jford@mtsu.edu or call 615-494-8639.

For more information, call Drs. Eric Klumpe at 615-898-2483 or Dr. Charles Higgins at 615-898-5946. For general information and a downloadable PDF of the fall 2011 schedule, visit http://bit.ly/MTStarParties11 or call 615-898-2130.

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