[meteorite-list] Great Planet Debate Conference

[lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu]

Dear Listserv:

As a participant, I just received this email.

The conference is not open to the general public, but if you are an
educator, the last day is set aside for educators and scientists to
discuss the subject.

Of possible interest to you is the debate that is being webcast on August
14. This is open to anyone and if interested, you should register for it.

Depending on my time, and space in the next issue, I will be writing about
the meeting for the November or February issue of Meteorite magazine.

I will be giving an invited talk and am on two panels, so it will be a
busy three days for me.

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THE GREAT PLANET DEBATE: SCIENCE AS PROCESS

Dear Colleagues,

"The Great Planet Debate" (GPD) conference at the Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory will be held August 14-16, 2008.

This includes two days of scientific sessions to discuss and debate
the processes leading to planetary formation and characteristics and
various criteria by which planets can be defined and categorized. An
educator's workshop follows on the third day, to discuss how the planet
debate can be used to explain science as a process.

The final program is now available at:

http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/schedule

The abstracts are posted at:

http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/abstracts

An open-to-the-public debate between Dr. Mark Sykes of the Planetary
Science Institute and Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson of the American Museum
of Natural History will start at 4:30 pm EDT on August 14th. The
debate, which will be moderated by Ira Flatow (the host of Science
Friday on National Public Radio) is free and will be streamed live on
the web.

To register for web and in-person participation in the GPD conference,
go to

http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/

With best regards,

Hal Weaver (GPD LOC Chair)

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For my own interest, please let me know if you plan on registering for the
webcast. This will help me get a feel for listserv's (and Meteorite
magazine readers') interest in the subject.

Thanks.

Larry