RASC Lecture: "Time's Up", by Dr. Ed Krupp - SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVED

Please take special note of the location:

The RASC Vancouver public lecture for Thursday February 9 will be held at the HR MacMillan Space Centre in the Star Theatre starting at 7:30PM

SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.

Our speaker will be in Vancouver at the invitation of the RASC Vancouver. His presentation will be co-hosted by the HR MacMillan Space Centre:

Dr. Ed Krupp,
Director,
Griffith Observatory (http://www.griffithobs.org/), Los Angeles

Title: Time's Up: 2012 and the Maya Calendar

Description: According to the rules of the Maya calendar system, which relied on multiple cycles of time, a primary interval, Baktun 13, ends on the winter solstice, 2012. Although pseudoscientific claims have linked this calendrical curiosity to a Maya prophecy of the end of time, there is no documented Maya belief in the world's end in 2012 or even in any unusual significance to the event. Recent claims, however, promote the date's galactic alignment and link it with the detailed structure of the Milky WayGalaxy, information known only through modern astronomy.

Griffith Observatory (http://www.griffithobs.org/) Director Dr. E.C. Krupp will detail how the 2012 beliefs about global transformation, solar system alignment, rogue planets, catastrophic pole shifts, and calamitous sunspots have been fabricated and marketed, and what the universe is really doing on the winter solstice in 2012.

Here are some extracts from Wikipedia on Dr. Krupp: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Krupp)

Edwin C. Krupp is an American astronomer and author. He has been the director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles for over thirty years ... Krupp is known for his extensive publications on astronomical and science education topics and his promotion of astronomy to the general public via his books, columns, appearances in visual media and through the science communication programs at the observatory. Several of his books have won notable awards from institutions such as the American Institute of Physics and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. In particular, Krupp is noted for his specialist contributions and investigations in the field of archaeoastronomy on which he has written widely, including such books as In Search of Ancient Astronomies (1977) and Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science (1984).

Astro-coffee and astro-cookies will be served after the meeting, so please join for what promises to be one of RASC Vancouver's most memorable public lectures!

This is the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Vancouver (http://www.vancouverastronomy.com/) monthly meeting and is shared with the general public at no charge.