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ASC-WA AGM 2019

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Our Annual General Meeting will be held at 6pm on Thursday 14th November 2019 this year, at The Garden Leederville (742 Newcastle St, Leederville WA 6007). There will be food!

Please email ASC WA if you would like to:

  • Nominate for a committee position
  • Contribute ideas for events next year
  • Have any points for general discussion you would like to raise

Committee member positions are president, treasurer, secretary, student representative, National Committee representative, and general committee member.

Current committee members are:

  • Miriam Sullivan (President)
  • Cass Rowles (Treasurer)
  • Sharnii Austin (Secretary)
  • Tammy Pinkerton (Social Media)
  • Teresa Belcher (General Committee & WA Rep)
  • Heather Bray (General Committee)

You must be a paid member in order to vote, but everyone is welcome to come and catch up and contribute ideas. If you are a paid member and can’t attend, please email us or give a friend your proxy vote so that we can meet quorum!

Download your proxy vote forms; word doc or PDF. Fill them in and either send them with a member to vote on your behalf or email to a member of the committee (asc.events.wa@gmail.com) who will vote on your behalf.

Facebook event for any discussions you’d like to have pre-meeting.

Inspiring Australia Update: Crowdsourcing Citizens For International Astronomy

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Gemma and her home-made comet starred in Astrofest tweets from former WA Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley (@ChiefSci_WA)

Gemma and her home-made comet starred in Astrofest tweets from former WA Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley (@ChiefSci_WA)

There’s a lot of space and a lot of things in space out there – which means some potentially interesting finds by keen viewers of the stars. Why not bring them together?

Want some help scanning the skies over outback Australia for shooting stars? Crowdsource it! And while you’re at it, educate the crowd. That’s the bright idea behind Curtin University’s Fireballs in the Sky project.

This project will include ordinary people in the research process, improving their scientific literacy and especially their understanding of planetary research.

The long-term aim of the project is to bring citizen scientists, particularly in remote locations in Western and South Australia, into the Desert Fireball Network – an international scientific collaboration that uses a network of cameras in outback Australia to photograph the fall of meteorites, greatly increasing the chances of finding and recovering them for further investigation.

Gemma Mullaney, Geoscience Outreach Officer at Curtin University tells more about the accessibility and the research over on the Inspiring Australia website.

Visit the Fireballs in the Sky website to download the app – and find more updates at the Inspiring Australia website.

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