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March 2024 Newsletter sbaU first Friday * meetingS Please visit our free m eeting in Farrand or Fleischmann Hall at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History . (Proceed thru iron gates by the whale bones.) SECRET: come early for a Short planetarium show at 7pm "sharp" , (go down towards Mission Creek, turn right just past a small frog pond) with meeting and presentation at 730pm (check below or the events calendar for details and possible *exceptions ). Note: 1st Friday* meetings also available by Zoo
The SBAU "Second Friday!!!" April 12, 2024 meeting will be Dr. David Kary, Citrus College, on "The Race to Find Life in the Universe". He will compare the different ways astronomers have of looking for alien life and give his perspective on which approaches have the best chance of winning the race. He is a past Director of Astronomy Programs at our SBMNH and taught at UCSB. He received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where his research included how solar sys
Listing of some of our past speakers since 2008 ____________________________________________________