Please join us for the February meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, February 11. The meeting will be held at Kaleideum – located at 120 West 3rd Street downtown in Winston-Salem, NC.
The program for the February meeting, How the Moon Made the Earth, will be presented by FAS member Steve Childers.
It’s easy to take the Moon for granted, especially by amateur astronomers who mostly want to avoid it. But the Moon has a unique and invaluable relationship with the Earth: it’s size, distance and mass creates an Earth-Moon pair that acts much like a double planet system. This talk will summarize the important role that the Moon has played in the 4.5-billion-year history of Earth, including stabilizing our seasons, playing critical roles in the origin and evolution of life on Earth, and regulating our biology and defining our culture throughout human history.
You don’t have to be a member to attend. If you’re curious and have an interest in astronomy and the universe, come on out! Of course, you can come just for the donuts.
The doors to the building will open at 7:00 pm. The doors will reman locked. Someone will be there to let you in.
We will meet in the 1st floor La STEAM B room. Enter through the side entrance (Members and Group entrance on the left). Go straight ahead into the meeting room.
When leaving, go out through the same side door and make sure the door is closed tightly behind you.
Please DO NOT wander throughout the building – The exhibits are NOT open.
There is no onsite parking, but after 5:00 PM and on weekends, all on-street parking is free (even with the new parking system downtown). The nearest on-street parking is on Third Street in front of the building and on Liberty Street. There are paid decks nearby, with the closest one being Liberty Plaza just south of the museum with entrances on Town Run Lane and Liberty Street. Here is a parking map of downtown.
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